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1126600

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether staff at the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists are instructed to check and assess the relevancy of codes of conduct that registrants declare.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	254140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists is an independent office holder who is responsible for maintaining and updating the lobbying register; registrants are required to state whether they comply with a code of conduct and in accordance with the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, the Registrar must be able to inspect any such code of conduct. The Transparency of Lobbying Act defines a “relevant” code of conduct as one which “governs the carrying on the business of consultant lobbying” and it is for the Registrar to determine whether a Code of Conduct meets this test.</p><p>The Department does not intend to undertake a review of the codes of conduct submitted by those on the register to the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists. It is for the independent Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct that a registrant wishes to declare on the Register is 'relevant'.</p><p> </p><p>I understand that the new Registrar will shortly launch a consultation on codes of conduct.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 20/05/2019 16:17:52 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1126603

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will conduct a review of the codes of conduct accepted by the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists in light of the number of registrants declaring their own self-authored code.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	254141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists is an independent office holder who is responsible for maintaining and updating the lobbying register; registrants are required to state whether they comply with a code of conduct and in accordance with the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, the Registrar must be able to inspect any such code of conduct. The Transparency of Lobbying Act defines a “relevant” code of conduct as one which “governs the carrying on the business of consultant lobbying” and it is for the Registrar to determine whether a Code of Conduct meets this test.</p><p>The Department does not intend to undertake a review of the codes of conduct submitted by those on the register to the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists. It is for the independent Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct that a registrant wishes to declare on the Register is 'relevant'.</p><p> </p><p>I understand that the new Registrar will shortly launch a consultation on codes of conduct.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 20/05/2019 16:18:05 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1128316

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2019 to Question 254140, what the scope will be of the consultation launched by the Registrar into codes of conduct.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	257422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 established it is the role of the Registrar to keep and publish the Registrar of consultant lobbyists, in which third party lobbyists declare the names of their clients, and whether or not they subscribe to a relevant code of conduct.</p><p>The Registrar has a duty to monitor compliance, and the power to undertake enforcement action against non-compliance. Therefore, it is for the Registrar to determine whether to launch any consultation into codes of conduct and the scope of such a consultation. I understand the Registrar is currently finalising the exact scope of the proposed consultation and will publish further details on the ORCL website when the consultation is launched.</p><p>It is also for the independent Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct a registrant wishes to declare on the Register is 'relevant'. It is for the Registrar to determine whether to make known information about where a code of conduct has failed to meet the test of relevance, and such queries should be directed towards the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/06/2019 09:51:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1128319

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2019 to Question 254140, for what reasons the Registrar is launching a consultation on codes of conduct.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	257423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 established it is the role of the Registrar to keep and publish the Registrar of consultant lobbyists, in which third party lobbyists declare the names of their clients, and whether or not they subscribe to a relevant code of conduct.</p><p>The Registrar has a duty to monitor compliance, and the power to undertake enforcement action against non-compliance. Therefore, it is for the Registrar to determine whether to launch any consultation into codes of conduct and the scope of such a consultation. I understand the Registrar is currently finalising the exact scope of the proposed consultation and will publish further details on the ORCL website when the consultation is launched.</p><p>It is also for the independent Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct a registrant wishes to declare on the Register is 'relevant'. It is for the Registrar to determine whether to make known information about where a code of conduct has failed to meet the test of relevance, and such queries should be directed towards the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/06/2019 09:51:23 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1128321

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2019 to Question 254140, how many instances there have been of consultant lobbying firms listing a code of conduct in their entry to the Register that have failed to meet the test that the code is relevant, as defined by the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	257424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 established it is the role of the Registrar to keep and publish the Registrar of consultant lobbyists, in which third party lobbyists declare the names of their clients, and whether or not they subscribe to a relevant code of conduct.</p><p>The Registrar has a duty to monitor compliance, and the power to undertake enforcement action against non-compliance. Therefore, it is for the Registrar to determine whether to launch any consultation into codes of conduct and the scope of such a consultation. I understand the Registrar is currently finalising the exact scope of the proposed consultation and will publish further details on the ORCL website when the consultation is launched.</p><p>It is also for the independent Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to determine whether a code of conduct a registrant wishes to declare on the Register is 'relevant'. It is for the Registrar to determine whether to make known information about where a code of conduct has failed to meet the test of relevance, and such queries should be directed towards the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/06/2019 09:51:48 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett