Lobbyists: Register Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Lobbyists: Register

Lord Swinfen Excerpts
Wednesday 12th December 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Swinfen Portrait Lord Swinfen
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My Lords, when we have a register of lobbyists, will it be illegal for those not on the register to lobby?

Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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There is a voluntary register of public relations companies, which was established in the wake of an earlier inquiry in 2009. However, one of the three bodies that joined that register has now left it. Even within the public relations industry, they disagree among themselves as to who exactly one should be regulating.