Frank Field’s election campaign spent £254.40 on balloon gas but what else was money spent on?
Frank Field’s election campaign spent £254.40 on balloon gas but what else was money spent on?
Today I went to Wallasey Town Hall and inspected several candidates’ election returns for the 2015 elections. Below are the pages from Frank Field’s campaign.
Unlike the local election where there is just one period that expenditure and donations need to be declared for, in a General Election there are two periods called “campaigns”. The “long campaign” is from 19th December 2014 to the date the person became a candidate. The “short campaign” is from the date they became a candidate to polling day.
Frank Fields’ campaign spent £31 during the long campaign (£19 on a mobile phone and £12 with WordPress for a website). However during the long campaign he received a £1,000 donation from USDAW (the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers).
During the short campaign £7,651.25 was spent (£1,200 on an advertising wraparound in the Wirral Globe, £4,794.35 on leaflets, £35.50 on taxis, £500 on the deposit, £254.40 on balloon gas, £437 on a market stall, £400 on office space in the Lauries Centre, £30 on topping up the mobile phone (presumably the one bought during the long campaign).
In the short campaign, the Birkenhead Constituency Labour Party donated £6,675.75, the Communication Worker’s Union £90 plus there were also two donations from individuals for £100 and £250. Updated 22nd June 2015: Wirral Council has been in touch and said that the names of the individual donors being blacked out was a mistake. £100 was donated by Ken Tasker and the £250 by Abhii Mantgani. These total £7,115.75.
The difference between expenditure and donations for this period was £535.50 was met by the candidate.
However I will point out that in the short campaign there was still £969 unspent from the donation from USDAW.
The documents submitted as his election expenses returns for the short and long period are below.
Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 1Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 2Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 3Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 4Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 5Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 6Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 7Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 8Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 9Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 10Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 11Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 12Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 13Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 14Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 15Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 16Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 17Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 18Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 19Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 20Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 21Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 22Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 22Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 23Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 24Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 25Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 26Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 27Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 28Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 29Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 30Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 31Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 32Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 33Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 34Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 35Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 36Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 37Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return short campaign page 38Birkenhead General Election 2015 Declaration election expenses Frank FieldBirkenhead General Election 2015 declaration election expenses George DaviesBirkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 39Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 40Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 41Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 42Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 43Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 44Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 45Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 46Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 47Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 48Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 49Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 50Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 51Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 52Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 53Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 54Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 55Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 56Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 57Birkenhead General Election 2015 election expenses return long campaign page 58
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Cllr Bill Davies asked a question of Bill Norman for advice on whether councillors had to declare trade union membership as an interest and if so what type.
Bill Norman said in his opinion, it was a personal interest, (and therefore needed to be declared) unless it affected a councillor’s decision-making of deciding the public interest in such a significant way, that it became a prejudicial interest. If it became the latter the councillor would have to declare it as a prejudicial interest.
Various interests were then declared by councillors including:-
Cllr Steve Foulkes said something about safety and press inference. He declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of his membership of USDAW.
Cllr Phil Davies declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of his membership of UNISON.
??? declared declared an interest in ??? because of his/her membership of UNISON.
Cllr George Davies declared an interest in ??? with respect to ???.
Cllr Ann McLachlan declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) with respect to her membership of UNITE.
Cllr Brian Kenny declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of membership of UNISON.
Cllr ????, declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of membership of UNITE and UNISON.
Cllr Adrian Jones declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of membership of two trade unions.
Cllr Jeff Green declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of membership of PROSPECT.
Cllr ?? declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of membership of EQUITY.
Cllr Ian Lewis declared an interest.
Cllr Paul Doughty declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) with respect to his trade union membership.
Cllr Pat Glasman declared an interest.
Cllr ??? declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of his/her membership of UNISON.
Cllr Bernie Mooney declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of her membership of UNITE.
Cllr John Salter, declared an interest/s because of ???
Cllr Lesley Rennie, declared a personal interest in Notice of Motion 16 (CUTS TO LOCAL TRANSPORT PLAN) due to her membership of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority.
Cllr Ian Lewis, declared an interest/s because of….
Cllr Sheila Clarke declared an interest/s because of…
Cllr ?? declared an interest in Notice of Motion 14 (FAIRNESS, NOT FAVOURS) because of their membership of UNISON.
There may have been other declarations of interest, but unfortunately the pen I was using was running out and from where I was sitting in the Council Chamber behind the Labour councillors also very difficult to hear those councillors who were far away.
