Conclusion 1

If transparency is the Government’s main mechanism for ensuring the integrity of the process by which Government is lobbied, clearly the information it releases on who has been lobbied by whom should be as accessible and easy to navigate as possible. A single, integrated platform that includes the transparency data for the whole of government is an important step towards that. We welcome the Government’s commitment to producing an integrated platform for transparency data. We will be watching closely the system’s progress towards completion and its impact once it is operational. Given we are in the final months of this Parliament, it will be the responsibility of our successor committee to consider the impact of the integrated platform and we encourage it do so.