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Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

Will the Minister clarify who is included and who is excluded? Can she confirm that in the case of News Corp trying to lobby on the full ownership of BSkyB, none of the senior executives from the company

would be included in the register, none of the public affairs people employed full time by the company would be included, the legal company that it used to do much of its lobbying would not be included, and nor, for that matter, would the public affairs company be included, because most of the work that it does is general communications? According to this Bill, nobody would have been included in the register in that instance, which many thought was profoundly corrupt.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
567 c762 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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