Who pays
for parties.

By recipient

Private donations
by party.

• Reform UK £33.7m
• Conservative £24.1m
• Labour £19.6m
• Liberal Democrats £10.2m
• Co-operative Party £1.81m
• Scottish National Party £1.08m
• Green £810k
• The Socialist Party of Great Britain £715k
• Your Party £670k
• Open Party £447k
• Sinn Féin £415k
• The Reclaim Party £340k

Central party and accounting units combined, as each registered party reports them. Excludes public funds.

By donor

Who
gives.

• Individual £64.9m
• Company £13.8m
• Trade Union £9.04m
• Unincorporated Association £5.13m
• Friendly Society £1.50m
• Limited Liability Partnership £350k
• Trust £332k
• Other £96.2k
• Registered Political Party £91.5k

Donor status as reported to the Commission.

Public money

Funds from
the state.

Parties also report money paid to them from public funds, which the Commission's register lists among donations with the type "Public Funds". The payers named in these returns include the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the devolved legislatures and the Electoral Commission itself, which pays policy development grants — grants "to assist the party with the development of policies for inclusion in any manifesto" (PPERA s.12). We keep these apart so the private totals above are not inflated.

MPs' own money

Register of
Interests.

Separately from party funding, each MP declares outside earnings, donations to support their work, gifts, overseas visits, property and shareholdings on the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The register currently holds 4,169 entries.

• 8. Miscellaneous 929
• 2. Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP 735
• 3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources 664
• 1.1. Ad hoc payments 587
• 4. Visits outside the UK 422
• 1. Employment and earnings 273
• 6. Land and property (within or outside the UK) 216
• 7. Shareholdings 194
• 1.2. Ongoing paid employment 71
• 9. Family members employed 33
• 10. Family members engaged in third-party lobbying 26
• 5. Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK 19

Largest declared values

Sum of the "Value" field on one-off entries only — ad hoc payments (1.1), donations and support (2), UK gifts and hospitality (3), visits outside the UK (4) and gifts from outside the UK (5). Ongoing employment, property and shareholdings are not summed, and an entry without a stated value counts as zero. Not a measure of income.