Westminster Underground The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency: Campaigning to end secrecy in lobbying.

We often feel like government doesn't listen enough to us, and listens too much to paid lobbyists working for private interests. Whether it?s IT companies lobbying for the introduction of ID cards, private healthcare firms wanting a piece of the NHS, arms manufacturers pushing for big defence contracts, or the aviation industry's influence over government policy on airport expansion.

At the moment, we've no right to know who is lobbying whom and for what. We think the public should know who is influencing government decisions.

We now have a chance to stop this secrecy with new rules for lobbyists. Read more


Cameron must now support real transparency in lobbying

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Lobbying in Westminster out of control
Tamasin Cave, 8 February 2010

David Cameron admitted today that “secret corporate lobbying, like the expenses scandal, goes to the heart of why people are so fed up with politics.”

The Conservative Party must now pledge to support the introduction of a statutory register of lobbyists, as recommended by the influential Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), chaired by Tony Wright MP.

In a speech this morning, Cameron said of lobbying: “It’s an issue that crosses party lines and has tainted our politics for too long...an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money. I’m talking about lobbying – and we all know how it works.

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