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

I should like to raise two issues. First, nobody is suggesting that all meetings with all civil servants should be included—I have some sympathy with what the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, said—only meetings with lobbyists. Secondly, the Minister has not answered the point made earlier in Committee, I think, or the suggestion made by the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, that when publishing details of his or her own meetings, Ministers should also publish information about the meetings of civil servants and special advisers in his or her department. That seems a very unbureaucratic way of addressing the issue.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
751 c38 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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