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Session 2013 - 14
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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Committee of the whole House

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and

Trade Union Administration Bill

Jon Trickett

1

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  4,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

2

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  5,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

3

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  6,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

Jon Trickett

4

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  8,  after ‘lobbyists’, insert ‘and

(c)
the person has signed up to the Register’s Code of Conduct.’.

Jon Trickett

5

Clause  2,  page  1,  line  11,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

6

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  11,  after ‘subordinate’, insert ‘European’.

Jon Trickett

7

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  12,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

8

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  2,  leave out ‘on behalf of another person or persons’.

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9

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  4,  leave out paragraph (b) and insert—

‘(b)
in return for payment the person advises others how to make

communications within subsection (3).

(c)
in return for payment the person arranges or facilitates a formal or

informal meeting within subsection (3).’.

Jon Trickett

10

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  after ‘written’, insert ‘including electronic’.

Jon Trickett

11

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  8,  leave out from ‘communications’ to ‘relating’ in line 9 and

insert ‘made to government or parliament, as defined in subsection (5).’.

Jon Trickett

12

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  19,  at end insert ‘or parliament’.

Jon Trickett

13

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  20,  leave out ‘Minister or permanent secretary’ and insert

‘person being lobbied’.

Jon Trickett

14

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  24,  leave out from ‘the government means’ to end of

subsection (5) and insert ‘“government and parliament” includes, within the United

Kingdom—

(a)
Ministers or officials of government departments;

(b)
Members and staff of either House of Parliament;

(c)
Special advisers and senior civil servants;

(d)
Non-ministerial departments, non-departmental public bodies and

executive agencies and their senior staff;

(e)
Advisers and consultants to government and parliament within the

meaning of this subsection, who are not employed by, or seconded to

government or parliament but have an official, if temporary, role.’.

Jon Trickett

Mr Gareth Thomas

15

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  11,  leave out sub-paragraph (1) and insert ‘Nothing in

Part 1 of the Schedule will affect Members of Parliament and Lords and their

parliamentary privilege.’.

Jon Trickett

Mr Gareth Thomas

16

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  15,  leave out sub-paragraph (2).

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17

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  18,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

Chi Onwurah

18

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  19,  leave out sub-sub-paragraphs 3(1) (a) and (b) and

insert—

‘(a)
the person is a constituent contacting or communicating with their

Member of Parliament;

(b)
the person is making communications solely on his or her own behalf;

(c)
the person is responding to a government consultation exercise;

(d)
the person is responding to an invitation to submit information or

evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee or Public Bill Committee;

(e)
the person is acting in an official capacity on behalf of a government

organisation;

(f)
a person is making communications without remuneration;

(g)
the person is responding to or complying with a court order,’.

Jon Trickett

19

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  25,  leave out sub-paragraph 3(2) and insert—

‘ A person is carrying on the business of professionl lobbying if they are acting—

(a)
on behalf of a client, or

(b)
on behalf of an employer.’.

Jon Trickett

20

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  30,  leave out sub-paragraph 3(3) .

Jon Trickett

21

Schedule  1,  page  50,  line  34,  leave out sub-paragraph 3(4) .

Jon Trickett

22

Schedule  1,  page  51,  line  8,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

23

Schedule  1,  page  51,  line  8,  after ‘if’, insert ‘the activity involves’.

Jon Trickett

24

Schedule  1,  page  51,  line  21,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

25

Schedule  1,  page  51,  line  43,  leave out paragraph (7).

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26

Schedule  1,  page  52,  line  10,  leave out paragraph (8).

Jon Trickett

27

Schedule  1,  page  52,  line  16,  leave out paragraph (10).

Jon Trickett

28

Schedule  1,  page  52,  line  20,  leave out paragraph (11).

Jon Trickett

29

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  34,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

30

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  35,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

31

Schedule  2,  page  53,  line  1,  after ‘Minister’, insert ‘after consultation with the

Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons.’.

Jon Trickett

32

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  38,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

33

Clause  4,  page  3,  line  12,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

34

Clause  4,  page  3,  line  21,  at end insert—

‘(c)
the approximate value of the registered person’s spending on their

lobbying activities for each quarter.’.

Jon Trickett

35

Clause  4,  page  3,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘(c)
specify any other information required under subsection 4(2) to be

included in the register.’.

Jon Trickett

36

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  37,  after ‘information’, insert ‘and spending on lobbying’.

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37

Clause  5,  page  4,  line  1,  at end insert—

‘(4)
Spending on lobbying for each quarter is the approximate value of the amount a

registered person spends on their lobbying activity for each quarter.’.

Jon Trickett

38

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  25,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Duty to apply a code of conduct

Jon Trickett

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
The Registrar shall, after wide consultation with relevant stakeholders including

the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the House of Commons,

prepare a code of conduct with which all registered persons will be required to

comply, and may produce revised codes from time to time;

(2)
The Secretary of State must lay any professional lobbying code of conduct before

Parliament.

(3)
Any code shall provide that any inappropriate financial relations between

registered persons and parliamentarians are strictly forbidden.

(4)
An organisation or person included on the register which contravenes the

provisions of the code of conduct shall be liable to civil penalties as set out in

Section 14.’.

Jon Trickett

39

Clause  9,  page  5,  line  12,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

40

Clause  10,  page  5,  line  28,  leave out from ‘offence’ to end of line 30.

Jon Trickett

41

Clause  12,  page  6,  line  22,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

Jon Trickett

42

Clause  14,  page  7,  line  39,  at end insert ‘or breaches the code of conduct’.

Jon Trickett

43

Clause  22,  page  10,  line  31,  leave out ‘seek to’.

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Disclosure of names of professional lobbyists

Jon Trickett

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Government must disclose the names of all persons who are professional

lobbyists that work for them, including senior persons—

(a)
who are employed directly with the UK Government;

(b)
who are formally employed by the political party or parties that form the

Government;

(c)
who are employed on a temporary basis as consultants; and

(d)
contractors.’.

Professional lobbyists taking up employment in government

Jon Trickett

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)
Any professional lobbyist taking up a senior position in Government will—

(a)
have their appointment scrutinised by a committee;

(b)
have restrictions placed on their activities as set out in subsection (3).

(2)
“Senior position in Government” means a position as Senior Civil Servant or their

equivalent.

(3)
The Minister, after consultation with relevant stakeholders, may make

regulations about the activities specified in section (1)(b).’.

Jon Trickett

44

Title,  line  2,  leave out ‘consultant’ and insert ‘professional’.

John Thurso

Andrew George

Simon Hughes

Dr Julian Huppert

45

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  9,  after ‘secretary’, insert ‘or special adviser’.

John Thurso

Stephen Lloyd

Andrew George

Simon Hughes

Dr Julian Huppert

46

Clause  26,  page  12,  line  28,  leave out subsections (3) and (4).

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John Thurso

Stephen Lloyd

Andrew George

Simon Hughes

Dr Julian Huppert

47

Clause  26,  page  12,  line  23,  leave out ‘subsections (2) to (4)’ and insert ‘subsection

(2)’.’.

Charitiy or non-party campaigning

John Thurso

Stephen Lloyd

Andrew George

Simon Hughes

Dr Julian Huppert

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘Nothing in Part 2 of this Act shall limit the capacity of a charity or non-party

campaigning organisation to comment on public policy in so far as it does not

seek to influence the outcome of an election in so doing.’.

Mr Graham Allen

Paul Flynn

Sheila Gilmore

Fabian Hamilton

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Mr Andrew Turner

48

Clause  2,  page  1,  line  11,  leave out subsection (1) and insert—

‘(1)
For the purposes of this Part, a person carries on the business of lobbying if in the

course of a business and in return for payment—

(a)
the person makes communications within subsection (3), or advises

another person on the making of communications within subsection (3),

and

(b)
none of the exceptions in Part 1 of Schedule 1 applies.’.

Mr Graham Allen

Paul Flynn

Sheila Gilmore

Fabian Hamilton

Mrs Eleanor Laing

49

Clause  2,  page  2,  line  7,  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

‘(3)
The communications within this subsection are oral or written communications

made personally to a Member of either House of Parliament, a Minister of the

Crown or permanent secretary or senior civil servant or special advisor relating

to—

(a)
the development, adoption or modification of any proposal of the

Government to make or amend primary or subordinate legislation;

(b)
the development, adoption or modification of any other policy of the

Government;



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