To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what recent guidance (a) the Certification Officer and (b) his Department has issued on whether office facilities provided by employers to trades unions may be used for political activity. (270288)

Neither the Certification Officer nor the Department has produced guidance on this particular matter.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what recent guidance (a) the Certification Officer and (b) his Department has issued on the proportion of fixed operating costs of a trades union with a political fund to be assigned to that fund. (270289)

Neither the Certification Officer nor the Department has produced guidance on this particular matter.