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| Wednesday 4 September 2013 |
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| Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and
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| Trade Union Administration Bill |
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| Clause 1, page 1, line 4, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 1, page 1, line 5, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’. |
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| Clause 1, page 1, line 8, after ‘lobbyists’, insert ‘and |
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| | (c) | the person has signed up to the Register’s Code of Conduct.’. |
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| Clause 2, page 1, line 11, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 11, after ‘subordinate’, insert ‘European’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 12, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 2, leave out ‘on behalf of another person or persons’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 4, leave out paragraph (b) and insert— |
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| | ‘(b) | in return for payment the person advises others how to make |
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| | communications within subsection (3). |
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| | (c) | in return for payment the person arranges or facilitates a formal or |
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| | informal meeting within subsection (3).’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 7, after ‘written’, insert ‘including electronic’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 8, leave out from ‘communications’ to ‘relating’ in line 9 and |
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| insert ‘made to government or parliament, as defined in subsection (5).’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 19, at end insert ‘or parliament’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 20, leave out ‘Minister or permanent secretary’ and insert |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 24, leave out from ‘the government means’ to end of |
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| subsection (5) and insert ‘“government and parliament” includes, within the United |
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| | (a) | Ministers or officials of government departments; |
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| | (b) | Members and staff of either House of Parliament; |
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| | (c) | Special advisers and senior civil servants; |
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| | (d) | Non-ministerial departments, non-departmental public bodies and |
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| | executive agencies and their senior staff; |
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| | (e) | Advisers and consultants to government and parliament within the |
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| | meaning of this subsection, who are not employed by, or seconded to |
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| | government or parliament but have an official, if temporary, role.’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 11, leave out sub-paragraph (1) and insert ‘Nothing in |
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| Part 1 of the Schedule will affect Members of Parliament and Lords and their |
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| parliamentary privilege.’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 15, leave out sub-paragraph (2). |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 18, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 19, leave out sub-sub-paragraphs 3(1) (a) and (b) and |
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| | ‘(a) | the person is a constituent contacting or communicating with their |
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| | (b) | the person is making communications solely on his or her own behalf; |
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| | (c) | the person is responding to a government consultation exercise; |
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| | (d) | the person is responding to an invitation to submit information or |
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| | evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee or Public Bill Committee; |
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| | (e) | the person is acting in an official capacity on behalf of a government |
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| | (f) | a person is making communications without remuneration; |
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| | (g) | the person is responding to or complying with a court order,’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 25, leave out sub-paragraph 3(2) and insert—
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| ‘ A person is carrying on the business of professionl lobbying if they are acting— |
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| | (a) | on behalf of a client, or |
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| | (b) | on behalf of an employer.’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 30, leave out sub-paragraph 3(3) . |
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| Schedule 1, page 50, line 34, leave out sub-paragraph 3(4) . |
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| Schedule 1, page 51, line 8, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 51, line 8, after ‘if’, insert ‘the activity involves’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 51, line 21, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Schedule 1, page 51, line 43, leave out paragraph (7). |
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| Schedule 1, page 52, line 10, leave out paragraph (8). |
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| Schedule 1, page 52, line 16, leave out paragraph (10). |
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| Schedule 1, page 52, line 20, leave out paragraph (11). |
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| Clause 3, page 2, line 34, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 3, page 2, line 35, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Schedule 2, page 53, line 1, after ‘Minister’, insert ‘after consultation with the |
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| Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons.’. |
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| Clause 4, page 2, line 38, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 4, page 3, line 12, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 4, page 3, line 21, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(c) | the approximate value of the registered person’s spending on their |
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| | lobbying activities for each quarter.’. |
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| Clause 4, page 3, line 29, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(c) | specify any other information required under subsection 4(2) to be |
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| | included in the register.’. |
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| Clause 5, page 3, line 37, after ‘information’, insert ‘and spending on lobbying’. |
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| Clause 5, page 4, line 1, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(4) | Spending on lobbying for each quarter is the approximate value of the amount a |
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| | registered person spends on their lobbying activity for each quarter.’. |
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| Clause 6, page 4, line 25, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| | Duty to apply a code of conduct |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Registrar shall, after wide consultation with relevant stakeholders including |
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| | the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons, |
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| | prepare a code of conduct with which all registered persons will be required to |
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| | comply, and may produce revised codes from time to time; |
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| | (2) | The Secretary of State must lay any professional lobbying code of conduct before |
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| | (3) | Any code shall provide that any inappropriate financial relations between |
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| | registered persons and parliamentarians are strictly forbidden. |
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| | (4) | An organisation or person included on the register which contravenes the |
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| | provisions of the code of conduct shall be liable to civil penalties as set out in |
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| Clause 9, page 5, line 12, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 10, page 5, line 28, leave out from ‘offence’ to end of line 30. |
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| Clause 12, page 6, line 22, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 14, page 7, line 39, at end insert ‘or breaches the code of conduct’. |
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| Clause 22, page 10, line 31, leave out ‘seek to’. |
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| | Disclosure of names of professional lobbyists |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘The Government must disclose the names of all persons who are professional |
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| | lobbyists that work for them, including senior persons— |
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| | (a) | who are employed directly with the UK Government; |
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| | (b) | who are formally employed by the political party or parties that form the |
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| | (c) | who are employed on a temporary basis as consultants; and |
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| | Professional lobbyists taking up employment in government |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | Any professional lobbyist taking up a senior position in Government will— |
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| | (a) | have their appointment scrutinised by a committee; |
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| | (b) | have restrictions placed on their activities as set out in subsection (3). |
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| | (2) | “Senior position in Government” means a position as Senior Civil Servant or their |
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| | (3) | The Minister, after consultation with relevant stakeholders, may make |
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| | regulations about the activities specified in section (1)(b).’. |
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| Title, line 2, leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 9, after ‘secretary’, insert ‘or special adviser’. |
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| Clause 26, page 12, line 28, leave out subsections (3) and (4). |
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| Clause 26, page 12, line 23, leave out ‘subsections (2) to (4)’ and insert ‘subsection |
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| | Charitiy or non-party campaigning |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘Nothing in Part 2 of this Act shall limit the capacity of a charity or non-party |
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| | campaigning organisation to comment on public policy in so far as it does not |
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| | seek to influence the outcome of an election in so doing.’. |
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| Clause 2, page 1, line 11, leave out subsection (1) and insert— |
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| | ‘(1) | For the purposes of this Part, a person carries on the business of lobbying if in the |
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| | course of a business and in return for payment— |
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| | (a) | the person makes communications within subsection (3), or advises |
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| | another person on the making of communications within subsection (3), |
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| | (b) | none of the exceptions in Part 1 of Schedule 1 applies.’. |
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| Clause 2, page 2, line 7, leave out subsection (3) and insert— |
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| | ‘(3) | The communications within this subsection are oral or written communications |
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| | made personally to a Member of either House of Parliament, a Minister of the |
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| | Crown or permanent secretary or senior civil servant or special advisor relating |
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| | (a) | the development, adoption or modification of any proposal of the |
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| | Government to make or amend primary or subordinate legislation; |
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| | (b) | the development, adoption or modification of any other policy of the |
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