{"value":{"id":436924,"memberId":1584,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for Constitutional Reform)","uin":"HCWS385","dateMade":"2015-12-10T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","title":"The Registration of Consultant Lobbyists Regulations (Amendment) (No.2) 2015","text":"<p>Part 1 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act provides for a statutory register of consultant lobbyists. The statutory register came into force on 1 April 2015 and has increased transparency by requiring those who lobby on behalf of a third party to publicly disclose the names of their clients.</p><p> </p><p>Section 22 of the Transparency Act provides that the costs of the register may be recovered from registrants via a charge. Today I have laid the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2015 which amend regulation 5 of the Registration of Consultant Lobbyists 2015 (SI 2015/379) to increase the annual charge per registered consultant lobbyist in connection with the maintenance of the register from £700 to £950.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":2,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":436923,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2015-12-10T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/436924","method":"GET"}]}