LABOUR has stopped reporting its falling party membership data to its national executive committee (NEC) members.

Three left Constituency Labour Party (CLP) members on the NEC raised concerns over the “unprecedented” decision.

The latest NEC meeting on Tuesday was told that the party will no longer update the committee on the data every two months.

In a report of the meeting, Jess Barnard, Gemma Bolton and Yasmine Dar said: “When questioned on the absence of membership data in recent reports, it was asserted that the party staff will no longer be reporting its membership data to the NEC, the governing body of the party, which is completely unprecedented.

“This is supposedly due to ‘leaks’, a bizarre assertion because it is a common and healthy practice for NEC representatives to report the numbers to our membership and we received no request to treat this information as confidential.”

The three raised concerns at the meeting about the right-wing political direction of the party “haemorrhaging party members.”

They warned this “is bad not just due to the losses in finances or of canvassers, but because party members connect the party to its core values and the communities it is there to represent.”

Concerns were also raised about attacks on party democracy at CLP level, with regional directors ruling motions out of order or preventing CLPs moving motions on particular topics that challenge government mistakes.

A spokeswoman for Momentum said: “The party’s decision to no longer publish membership figures speaks volumes about the consequences of Starmer’s reactionary policies.

“By failing to offer real change, Labour is seeing a drop in support not just from its members, but across its traditional heartlands too.”

The meeting also saw left and most trade union reps vote against the cancelling of equalities committees and conferences, which are stipulated for in the party rulebook, losing 15-14 on a move to withdraw the paper, and 16-12 on the paper itself.

Left CLP reps unsuccessfully opposed the cancellation of this year’s Women’s Conference.

This was said to be due to security, political and legal risks relating to the exclusion of transgender women from “positive action” that benefits women (such as all-women shortlists) following the Supreme Court ruling that sex refers to biological sex within the Equality Act.

Labour was contacted for comment.