Category: Investigation summaries -
Published on: Monday 11th January 2021
Organisation or Person Investigated Portland PR Limited Matter(s) Investigated Whether Portland PR Limited submitted accurate QIRs, particularly non-inclusion of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in their QIR for April to June 2020; and whether George Pascoe-Watson’s discussions with Lord Bethell included undeclared lobbying. This investigation followed a Sunday Times article on 15 November 2020. Registrar’s Decision […]
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Published on: Thursday 17th December 2020
Organisation or Person Investigated Big Innovation Centre (BIC) Matter(s) Investigated Whether Big Innovation Centre (BIC) carries out activities that fall within the terms of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (‘the Act’). Summary of Rationale for Decision BIC provided initial assurances that their activities do not fall within the […]
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Published on: Wednesday 25th November 2020
Organisation or Person Investigated Tulchan Communications LLP (‘Tulchan’) Matter(s) Investigated Whether Tulchan submitted an inaccurate Quarterly Information Return under the terms of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (‘the Act’), in particular whether they omitted a client from their return for the period April to June 2020. Registrar’s Decision […]
Category: News -
Published on: Tuesday 4th August 2020
The Registrar is today publishing an updated guidance document on registration and Quarterly Information Returns, which reflects updates to Pre-registration quarter, Declaring a code of conduct, and Updating register information and contact details. The updated guidance can be found here.
Category: Corporate documents -
Published on: Tuesday 21st July 2020
The Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists’ Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year 2019-20 was laid before Parliament on 20 July 2020, having been certified by the Comptroller and Auditor General without qualification. You can download a copy below. The document, together with an Open Data Source version of the tabular data […]
Category: Publications -
Published on: Thursday 7th May 2020
This document sets out the key priorities of the Registrar to ensure continued compliance with the Transparency of Lobbying [etc] Act 2014 during the 2020-21 financial year. You can download and read the Business Plan below.
Category: Publications -
Published on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
April 2020 Organisation or Person Investigated Lowick Group Matter(s) Investigated Whether the Lowick Group’s activities are such that they should be entered on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists. Registrar’s Decision There is no evidence of consultant lobbying historically, but Lowick Group are likely to need to register themselves in prospect of future work. Summary of […]
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Published on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
These files contain data on all those who are currently or have previously been registered, and the clients which they have declared to us each quarter, since the Register of Consultant Lobbyists began in 2015. Last updated 7 May 2020.
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Published on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
February 2020 Organisation or Person Investigated The Finsbury Group Matter(s) Investigated Whether The Finsbury Group failed to declare any consultant lobbying activity on behalf of Huawei Technologies. Registrar’s Decision Whilst Huawei has been a paying client of The Finsbury Group, there is no evidence that the latter conducted consultant lobbying activity for the former within […]
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Published on: Wednesday 5th February 2020
Between August 2019 and January 2020, responding to information provided by a third party, the Registrar investigated whether Acumen Public Affairs and/or Hering Schuppener should have joined the Register of Consultant Lobbyists. A summary of the investigation and conclusion can be downloaded below.