Two people have been charged after a British National Party membership list was leaked onto the internet.
They are accused of breaching the Data Protection Act.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the pair were arrested as part of a joint investigation with the Information Commissioner's Office.
They are due to appear in NottinghamMagistrates Court on September 1.
The far-right BNP called for a police investigation last November after the names, addresses and contact details of some 10,000 of its members were published online.
A Conservative Party association chairman apologised "unreservedly" after saying he would select a female MP only "if they were attractive”.
Asked on TV if he was happy to support David Cameron's call to put more women in Parliament, Alan Scard said: "If they are attractive, yeah, I would go for it."
Mr Scard, 63, who is in charge of Gosport Conservative Association in Hampshire, said afterwards that his comments were made in jest.
He later issued a statement saying: "This was a tongue-in-cheek comment and I apologise unreservedly if it's caused any offence.
"As a proud parent of two girls, the last thing I would ever want to do is say something sexist. We will choose the best person to represent Gosport young or old, male or female, entirely on merit."
Mr Scard was speaking to Channel 4 News about his association's selection of a new candidate to fight the Westminster seat of Gosport.
Expanding on his attractive comment, he said: "I know it's a sexist thing to say but you could get the blokes saying, 'Oh you know, I would vote for her because she's really attractive', but then the other women say 'Oh I don't like her, she's too attractive'."
Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Cabinet Office, branded his comments "deeply offensive".
She told the programme: "These comments, which are deeply offensive and hugely patronising to women, are exactly the type of Tory attitude David Cameron claims to have got rid of. In the last two weeks we have seen Tories denying homophobia exists, condemning the NHS and now this blatant sexism."
A Conservative Party spokesman said that all female candidates were selected on "merit". He said: "These remarks were inappropriate and unacceptable, and Alan Scard has rightly apologised.
I welcome the well deserved comments of Marie Birchall the Tories should take heed and stop using sexist languages.
“Eliminating gender inequality and achieving women’s empowerment are essential to the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the upholding of human rights”
Dare I say it, but taken from the 2007 Conservative Women’s Group Policy Paper, this sounded like a step in the right direction when it comes to the role of women in international development for the Tories.
For too long, women in the developing world have been denied agency and seen simply as the passive recipients of aid. After all, isn’t giving women a shiny new bucket in which to collect water a much simpler endeavour than challenging the power relations that ensure the toil of collecting water is the sole preserve of women and girls? Thankfully, this approach to aid is undergoing a much-needed overhaul and on the surface at least, it seemed like the Tories were keeping pace.
So, as someone with a passion for gender and development – and as a Labour activist proud of the giant leap that was Labour’s establishment of DfID – I awaited the recent Conservative Green Paper on International Development with mild interest. With the recognition of the central importance of women’s empowerment and firm commitments to gender equality as a crosscutting issue throughout Labour’s recent White Paper, the Green Paper certainly had a lot to live up to.
The result? Spectacular failure. Despite making up more that 70 per cent of the world’s poorest people, women and the particular challenges they face barely get a mention. Apart from when it comes to reproductive rights, of course (as a woman, perhaps I am unique in being interested in how other policy areas – the economy, justice or the distribution of resources, for example – might impact upon me?).
But then it got a little bit worse. Whilst advocating for longer overseas placements for DfID staff in fragile States, the somewhat blinkered Green Paper sees the main problem as being “no wives and children are allowed”.
With this one Freudian slip, the true extent of the Tories lack of commitment to gender equality is revealed. Not only does Dave welcome more Daves into his Shadow Cabinet than women, he also assumes – or maybe expects – that DfID’s leading ladies will step aside and leave the tougher development jobs to the boys. After all, these guys will of course be supported by their ever-obliging wives.
Note to the Conservatives – the world has changed and not only is this an insult to the countless female members of DfID staff who work in some of the world’s toughest environments, it is an affront to every woman who has overcome pervasive discrimination to prove her equality with men.
Harriet Harman has recently received a lot of flack on Labour blogs for her outspokenness on gender issues but I for one am proud to be a member of a Party whose leadership confronts gender stereotyping of this nature, not further entrenches it.
