Campaign Spending

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Dear Electoral Commission,

Please provide me with the following information:

a) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual Prospective Parliamentary Candidates of the Dagenham & Rainham constituency for 2010
b) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual Prospective Parliamentary Candidates of the Dagenham & Rainham constituency for 2015
b) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual candidates seeking election to Barking & Dagenham Council in 2014.

Yours faithfully,

Tony J Emin

Dear Electoral Commission,

You are required by law to acknowledge my FOI request promptly.
Please ensure you acknowledge my request so that your department may provide the requested information as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Tony J Emin

FOI, Electoral Commission

Dear Tony J Emin
 
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 dated
21 November 2015.  You requested:
 
     a) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual
     Prospective Parliamentary Candidates of the Dagenham & Rainham
     constituency for 2010
     b) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual
     Prospective Parliamentary Candidates of the Dagenham & Rainham
     constituency for 2015
     c) the total amount of spending recorded for the individual
     candidates seeking election to Barking & Dagenham Council in 2014.
 
Our response is as follows:
 
Your request refers to Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, we understand
this terminology to refer to people who want to be a candidate (i.e. are
seeking a party nomination) rather than the candidates who actually stand
in the election.  The Commission does not hold information relevant to
spending data for anyone who was a prospective candidate but does hold
information relating to candidates who stood for election. 
 
Parliamentary candidates that are standing for election are required to
deliver a return of spending to the Returning Officer. The information you
seek regarding the candidates for Dagenham and Rainham is available from
the Returning Officer. The Returning Officers for every constituency are
also required to provide copies of the spending returns to the Commission.
We collate that data to produce a single record of candidate spending in
every constituency in the UK. That collation process is time consuming,
and we are working hard to publish the information as soon as possible -
we anticipate doing so early in the new year.
 

 a. This information for 2010 is available from our website [1]here
 b. This information for 2015 will be available on our website when
Commission publishes the candidate spending returns.  The Returning
Officer does hold this information also. 
 c. We do not hold this information. The Local Authority may be able to
assist you with this part of your request. 

 
I trust that this information satisfies your request.
If you are not satisfied with this response, please note that the
Commission operates a review procedure, details of which can be found on
the Commission website at:
[2]http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ab...
Please also note that if you have exhausted all internal Commission review
procedures and you are still not satisfied you have the right to appeal to
the Information Commissioner. Details of this procedure can be found on
the ICO website: [3]http://www.ico.gov.uk
 
Yours sincerely
 
Jo Crofton-Diggins
Information Manager
The Electoral Commission
3 Bunhill Row
London EC1Y 8YZ
Tel: 020 7271 0703
Fax: 020 7271 0528
[4]www.electoralcommission.org.uk
 
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