Asked by: Lord Hain (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will review the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, in the light of the Registrar's inability to remove organisations such as Bell Pottinger from the Register of Consultant Lobbyists.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The Transparency of Lobbying Act 2014 does not confer powers on the Registrar to remove consultant lobbyists from the Register unless they cease to be consultant lobbyists. The Government position continues to be that the current regulations are designed to complement rather than replace existing industry-led self-regulation.
Asked by: Lord Hain (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
Her Majesty's Government how many EEA nationals have been denied a job in the public sector in each of the last five years on the grounds that the UK has invoked the employment in the public service derogation provided for by Article 45(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU.
Answered by Earl of Courtown - Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Some sensitive posts in the Civil Service are designated as being reserved for UK nationals only. This is explained in the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
In practice, an EEA or third country national who applies for a reserved post in the Civil Service will be sifted out at an early stage, as it would not be lawful to employ him or her. Therefore, there is no record of this information.
Aside from this, most other public bodies do not generally rely on the derogation.