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

I am told that the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) regularly leads people astray—[ Interruption. ] I do not mean that; I am joking.

As has been said repeatedly, we were first led to believe that this measure would be a lobbying Bill, but since then parts 2 and 3 have been added. We had been promised a lobbying Bill for three and a half years, but all sorts of things have been bolted on to that. Why was there no consultation paper on not only part 2, which we dealt with yesterday, but part 3 and provisions such as clause 36? Why could not the Government have issued a consultation paper so that people could have contributed to the process, rather than ramming the Bill through in a few days, despite introducing it just before the recess? These measures should have been thought through carefully and a consultation process to which people could contribute should have been held, but that simply did not happen.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
567 c1029 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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