Labour has continued to receive more funding than the Conservative Party, according to the latest figures.

Details of donations to political parties for the second quarter of this year were released by the Electoral Commission on Tuesday.

They revealed that Labour received donations totalling £3,114,447.

The Conservatives lagged behind on £1,782,278 and the Liberal Democrats received just £807,588

Plaid Cymru received £17,516 and the Scottish National Party gained donations totalling £78,009.

The British National Party received £2500 and the Green Party was given £14,806 while the income of the People's Alliance totalled £371,114

The Scottish Socialists received £9,619.40 - all of which came from MSP Tommy Sheridan. The UK Independence Party declared donations to the value of £2000.

With a total of 249 political parties required to submit quarterly donation reports, a total of £6,416,261 was received in the second quarter. For the same period in 2002 a total of £3,111,542 was reported to the commission.

For Labour the largest donations continued to come from the unions, despite recent rifts over key policies.

Cash and payments in kind from Unison totalled £524,507 while the Transport and General Workers Union gave a further £368,337 to party coffers.

The Communications Workers Union gave £167,870, the GMB donated £356,685 and Amicus gave Labour £414,630.

Labour also received individual donations of £100,000 from City stockbroker Charles Peel and Peter Thompson, chairman of the Hong Kong Port Board, while a further £200,000 came from property magnate Sir David Garrard - knighted in the New Year's Honours for his charity work.

Among the corporate donors to the Conservatives were Slough Estates PLC which donated £25,000 and Flowidea Ltd which gave £50,800. A further £25,000 came from Countrywide Developments Ltd.

Advertising guru Lord Bell gave the Tories £5320 while former Vodafone boss Sir Christopher Gent donated £11,900.

The largest single donation to the Liberal Democrats was £125,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.

The Green Party received £1800 from the deputy mayor of London, Jenny Jones, while the party's two MEPs, Caroline Lucas and Jean Lambert, gave £2135 and £2100 respectively.