To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give for each year since 1979 the number of transfers to political parties made on or within one year of death where the sum involved was (a) between £50,000 and £100,000 and (b) in excess of £100,000.

[holding answer 18 April 1988]: Details of transfers to political parties are not separately recorded, so it is not possible to give for any year the number of such transfers or the amounts involved.