Tag: lobbying

Public Affairs Board welcomes proposed lobbying code consultation

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Affairs Board – representing a majority of organisations declaring a code of conduct on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists – has welcomed proposals for a new consultation on codes and their relevancy to lobbying. In answer to a question from Jon Trickett MP about codes of conduct and the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, Kevin Foster MP, Interim Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for the Constitution), Cabinet Office, noted that it was for the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct that a registrant…

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Think tanks and lobbying: statutory register must be expanded

Stuart Mitchell

Responding the recent press coverage about alleged links between think tanks and the lobbying process, the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has welcomed comments from Alison White, Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, and again called for the statutory lobbying register to be expanded to include all lobbyists rather than simply some third-party consultants.  Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “Think tanks play a vibrant and vital part in the political process. But recent coverage simply adds to the mistaken belief that somehow the lobbying process is unethical and broken.…

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Industry responds to the launch of the Lobbying Register in Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to the launch of the Lobbying Register in Scotland, the PRCA has welcomed its broad scope, while warning that the “burdensome and unnecessary amount of information” required from registrants and statutory code of conduct risk deterring engagement with the Scottish Parliament. Organisations and individuals (including those working in-house and within consultancies) carrying out activities which meet the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016’s definition of “regulated lobbying” are required to record those details on the Lobbying Register in Scotland. The Act’s definition of lobbying is specifically limited to oral face-to-face communications…

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