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Cant follow your piece on grants what grants to who from who when.
There are too many to paste up - just google it and it will come under grants/tax payers money ( which is as we know - Government cash). It is hidden under many guises and possibilities, but in reality they can do what they want with it.
Just a small example/extract drawn from a parliamentary meeting pasted below. Paragraph 3. they refer to it as subsidies, you can call it what you will.................But! why are they getting it.
The "Tax Payers Alliance" are up in arms about the Unions getting tax payers monies ( which is as we know - Government cash),..............we cannot all be wrong in our thoughts.
I would like to see the transparency in it, as to why the money goes in - and where it goes...................not that I think for one minute that they should be getting any money from the Government, it smacks of corruption.
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Robert Halfon (Harlow) (Con): I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Fiona Bruce) on obtaining the debate. I am a member of Prospect trade union, and it does not give me any money for political campaigning, but I am publishing a pamphlet with Demos in the next couple of weeks, on relations between the unions and the Conservative party, and am deeply interested in the issue.
I want to make three points. First, I believe that it is wrong to lump all trade unions together. Secondly, as the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Mr Doran) said, the Conservative party has a long history of co-operation with unions, on which we should build. Thirdly, we should do more to support the moderate majority of trade union members, most of whom are not political activists.
It is true that some trade unions get subsidies from the Government, as do banks. Yet many unions are, we should acknowledge, capitalist institutions, offering services that are intended directly to replace state provision, such as private health care. The market comparison website privatemedicalinsurance.co.uk shows that the Labour-affiliated union Unison has recently encouraged its members to join private health care schemes such as Medicash.