CSPL · Upholding Standards in Public Life
USPL-34
Partially accepted
In progress
November 2021
Recommendation
Consultant lobbyists should have to declare the date, recipient, and subject matter of their lobbying.
Addressed to
Cabinet Office
Government response
The Government agrees in principle that consultant lobbyists should have to declare the subject matter of their lobbying and will look to implement this via secondary legislation. However, the Government does not agree that they should have to declare individual instances of lobbying (date and recipient), as this would change the nature of the Register from a list of consultant lobbyists' clients to a list of individual instances of lobbying. These are recorded in the departmental transparency returns, against which the Register of Consultant Lobbyists can be cross-referenced.
CSPL assessment
partially_met