Promote Openness and Transparency in the EU Referendum Debate

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

In the interests of transparency and full disclosure, the government should require all organisations that express a view on the EU referendum to declare whether they are receipients of EU funding and to specify how much money they've received from the EU in the preceding three years.

Organisations such as the OECD, the LSE, some large charities, and a number of major unions have declared their support for remaining in the EU, but the public may not be aware that most of these organisations receive funding from the EU, which could be viewed as potentially creating a conflict of interest.
In order to give voters as much information as possible, organisations expressing a view should be required to disclose whether they've received EU funding and how much they've had.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

At the moment, the Government doesn't have the power to require organisations to do this. Parliament would have to change the law on elections to introduce this new requirement.

Timeline

14 May 2016	Petition opened for signatures
17 May 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 17 May 2016

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