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Controversial payday loans company Wonga wants to team up with the government to get the economy growing, a collection of lobbying letters reveal. ...
The Queen's speech was yet another wasted opportunity for the Government to make up its mind on a statutory register of lobbyists. For the past three years, this Government has told us that a register is both essential and imminent. And for the past three years, it has failed to take any of the many opportunities open to it to introduce such a register.
The ten things you need to know on Monday 29 April 2013... 1) 'A COLLECTION OF CLOWNS AND ANGRY PEOPLE' Two things have become clear over the pa...
We recently learned that more than 100 lobbying professionals hold passes giving them access to the whole of the Parliamentary estate.
There is one thing to be said for the Private Members' Bill to create a register of lobbyists which will be heard in Parliament tomorrow: at least it is being debated by MPs.
My last blog was prompted by a story I read in the New York Times showing the amounts of money being spent by high tech companies seeking to influence...
Lobbyists are like lawyers. Normally in return for coin of the realm they put forward their client's case for or against a particular proposition. Thus lobbyists undoubtedly can help to improve the democratic process and this should lead to better decision-making all round.
The single most important thing that can be done to improve public confidence and transparency in lobbyists and the lobbied would be the creation of a statutory lobbying register - not ripping up the rule book on APPGs.
The public needs to see who we are and better understand what we do. A statutory register of all lobbyists would give the public the chance to find out for themselves and let us and our activities be judged and scrutinised. With confidence in politics at such a low ebb, it would be at least a start.
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after former military chiefs were reported to have boasted about lobbying top officials to secur...
The government needs to deliver on its promise to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists, to restore faith in our industry and to put to an end the drip-drip of lobbying stories that rear their head from time to time and undermine the professional, ethical and useful job that the vast majority of lobbyists are doing day in day out.
Climate change sceptics have for a long time sapped the energy and time of those of us who look at the evidence and the science.
The government to scrap its plans to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists, MPs have said. In a report published this morning, the political ...
I knew the issues surrounding GM food were controversial but never did I imagine that my taking part in a protest would induce such a backlash. Naive? Possibly. Bewildered? Definitely.
The coalition is determined to push through a shake-up of lobbying rules before 2015, constitutional reform minister Mark Harper said today. Harper...
The Queen's Speech provided further evidence of the 'omnishambles' which this Tory-led government has become. No vision, nor purpose and no direction. This is the best way to describe the Queen's Speech.
In a week of political misery, I've seen a chink of light, and it was in Ghent.
The Sunday Times party funding investigation is being wrongly conflated into a lobbying scandal by leader writers and others who see this as a good opportunity to keep up the pressure on the public affairs profession, which they either misunderstand or don't like.
David Cameron said that he thought the next big political scandal after MPs' expenses would involve lobbying. Sadly, but one might say predictably, the next big political scandal has involved a party fundraiser attempting to encourage a company to give money in return for access to policymakers.
Government plans to regulate lobbyists have been attacked as "fundamentally flawed" by leading players in the industry. This attack came as represe...
The long awaited consultation document on the promised statutory register of lobbyists has been published. This week, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is contacting individual members of our Public Affairs Group to seek their views on the questions it raises.
Lobbyists and trade unions who seek to influence government policy will be forced to sign a compulsory register, under plans due to be unveiled on Fri...
Downing Street insisted today that David Cameron's former director of policy complied with rules on business appointments when he took on work for a l...
David Cameron has predicted that the controversial lobbying industry may well cause the next scandal to affect Britain on a large scale.
David Cameron's constituency president has said he believes lobbying needs to be regulated. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Lord Ch...
