The British government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists has already come under scathing attack for failing to secure healthy links between senior officials and lobbying firms.

The proposed “Introducing a Statutory Register of Lobbyist” defines lobbyists as “those who undertake lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client or whose employees conduct lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client.”

“Our initial proposal is that a register should include information about the names of individual lobbyists and lobbying firms and the names of their clients. In addition, we propose that the register should include whether a lobbyist was previously a Government Minister or a Senior Civil Servant. The Government does not propose that any information on meetings should be included in a register,” says the British government's proposed reforms to lobbying industry's governance.

Therefore, the proposals are carefully designed to exempt firms employing in-house lobbyists from being forced to register.

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