- Title: Dispatches: The Doughty Street Papers
- Date: 1st December 1993
- Summary: British United Industrialists and Aims of Industry,both at 40 Doughty St,are money-raising organisations for the Conservative Party. BUI tells firms that donations need not be declared. John Cooper QC says political donations over ÌøåÀå?200 must appear in company accounts. The Foundation For Business Responsibilities at the same address helped Dame Shirley Porter to win Westminster. Participants include Sir Edward Heath who condemns the schemes; Simon Oliver,Chair of Mendip Foods,who refused to contribute; Colin Taylor of Frizell Group Ltd; Peter Clark,Adviser to AOI: Sir Leslie Young; Lord Armstrong,ex-head of Home Civil Servants; Richard Fries of the Charity Commission; Graham Pycock,a Conservative trade unionist; and Eric Chalker,late of the Conservative Board of Finance. Conservative Central Office and Michael Ivans of AOI refused to take part.
- Description:An investigation of some of the organisations which help fund or support the Conservative Party and which poses the question of whether laws govern- ing political donations,election expenses and charitable giving are always followed.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:01/12/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s