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  • January 16, 2014
    Progress, but Lobbying Bill remains dangerous
  • January 16, 2014
    Ministers asked to think again on Lobbying Bill after major Lords defeat

    Voluntary groups are calling on the government to reconsider its Lobbying Bill following a major defeat in the House of Lords last night.

  • January 15, 2014
    Charity exemption is not the way to tackle a dangerous Lobbying Bill

    There has been a united, determined campaign against the gagging impact of the Lobbying Bill on the part of voluntary groups and NGOs. Some will therefore think it a shame that a minority of charities, and the Charities Aid Foundation, have at this late stage chosen the path of seeking exemptions for themselves rather than focussing on the wider considerations.

  • January 15, 2014
    Briefing on Lord Harries' amendments to the Lobbying Bill

    A series of amendments are being tabled to the Lobbying Bill by Lord Harries today (15 January 2014), for which we offer a full briefing below.

  • January 15, 2014
    Lobbying debate in the media as Lords vote

    As the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill comes up for the final votes at Westminster this week, an advert is appearing in The Times newspaper – supported by Ekklesia and 100 other civil society organisations – drawing parliamentarians' attention to the huge concern about this bill across the voluntary sector, and highlighting the 164,000+ members of the public who have signed it in just a few days.

  • January 14, 2014
    Lobbying Bill petition tops 163,000 in just a few days

    The extent of public concern about the government's controversial Lobbying Bill, which lets off corporate lobbyists but threatens to gag NGOs and unions, is seen in the extraordinary response to the petition backing Lord Harries' amendments, launched only late last week.

  • January 13, 2014
    Lobbyists: what alcohol and gambling learned from tobacco

    The Lobbying Bill being debated at Westminster will do nothing to expose corporate lobbying, says Tamasin Cave, a director of SpinWatch, author, and leader of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency coalition. If we are going to diminish corporate commercial influence in government, we need to understand its tactics better and call them out.

  • January 13, 2014
    The real lobbying villains are getting away with it

    Today (13 January 2014) the House of Lords is discussing Part 1 of the controversial Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill.

  • January 13, 2014
    Lord Tyler and Baroness Williams attempt to buy off charities on lobbying

    Lord Paul Tyler, Liberal Democrat spokesman in the Lords on constitutional reform issues, and Baroness Shirley Williams, former leader of Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords have attacked Caroline Lucas MP as "misguided and wrong" in her concerns about the Lobbying Bill – namely, that unless significantly amended (or better, scrapped and completely redrafted) it will let corporate lobbyists off the hook while gagging non-party organisations and unions.

  • January 12, 2014
    UN rapporteur says Lobbying Bill is 'a stain on democracy'

    In an astonishing attack on the government's much-criticised Lobbying Bill, a senior UN rapporteur has called it a threat to democracy.