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Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014

Question for Cabinet Office

UIN HL1473, tabled on 8 September 2017

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 on

14 September 2017

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.

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Cabinet Office