Queensland's Liberal National Party (LNP) says it cannot declare who is behind $100,000 worth of political donations, despite new laws set by the Labor Government.

The party was required to retrospectively declare all donations over $1,000 after the new Labor Government in March decreased the reporting threshold of reporting from $12,800.

The LNP's updated return for January 1 to June 30, 2014 included 28 donations, totalling just over $100,000, which have no names supplied.

Acting Premier Jackie Trad raised the issue with opposition transport spokesman Scott Emerson at a budget estimates hearing this morning.

"If the Member for Indooroopilly wants to talk about a racket, let's talk about the $100,000 of secret donations that were publicly released yesterday," she said.

Mr Emerson said donors' names were provided for most of the $4,739,801 that was received by the LNP in the six-month period.

"The electoral commission has made it very clear that this is a very small percentage of those donations and [it] can understand, with the change of rules, that some of those donations may not have all the records associated with them," he said.

"We provided all the details and information that was available and the electoral commission has accepted what we provided."

LNP president Bruce McIver also responded in a statement.

"The LNP has made every effort to comply with Labor's retrospective laws and provide names of donors during the period when the higher threshold existed," he said.

"In a comparatively small number of cases, because names were not required to be recorded at the time, the Electoral Commission of Queensland has accepted that it has not been possible to provide some names."

He said the claims by Ms Trad were an attempt to distract from the controversy surrounding the Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller who has been referred to the ethics committee.

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