Lord Pickles said MPs should have to know and declare a named individual as the originator of a donation, even if the funds come from a company, in response to Sky News' Westminster Accounts project.
"There is a degree of due diligence that members of Parliament are not required currently to do under the rules, but basically should be, which is pretty straightforward, which is 'why is this organisation giving me money and do they expect anything in return'?"
Lord Pickles said it"wouldn't be unreasonable to put together some guidelines for MPs to be able to answer some just very basic questions"."It doesn't mean to say they have to do a line-by-line scrutiny of the company or employ expensive accountants to do so, but to be able to answer just one or two questions like who has given this money and who is the controlling thought behind that company and why they're doing it.
"And just to simply say this money is to be used for this, there are no restrictions. Or this is to conduct research in a particular area. This isn't actually going to put an enormous burden on members of parliament, and I think it will remove an awful lot of worry."
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