Post by pchallinor on Oct 16, 2011 21:22:12 GMT
"Harper, she alleges, is resisting an FoI request asking for details of his meetings with lobbyists to discuss lobbying transparency."
Makes you proud. Sentences like that are what Britishness is all about.
Government ministers held more than 1,500 meetings with corporate representatives in the first 10 months of the coalition, according to a Guardian analysis which has prompted claims of a "massive disparity" in access to ministers.
As the Liberal Democrats indicated that they would use the resignation of Liam Fox to speed up the introduction of a register of lobbyists, the Guardian publishes figures showing the extent of the government's links with business.
The figures show that minsters met corporate representatives on 1,537 occasions in the first 10 months of the coalition. This excludes several hundred round-table meetings where numerous companies were present.
Trade bodies, thinktanks and other interest groups had 1,409 meetings. By contrast, charities were met on just 833 occasions, and union representatives just 130 times, less than a tenth as often as their corporate counterparts.
Guardian
Makes you proud. Sentences like that are what Britishness is all about.
Government ministers held more than 1,500 meetings with corporate representatives in the first 10 months of the coalition, according to a Guardian analysis which has prompted claims of a "massive disparity" in access to ministers.
As the Liberal Democrats indicated that they would use the resignation of Liam Fox to speed up the introduction of a register of lobbyists, the Guardian publishes figures showing the extent of the government's links with business.
The figures show that minsters met corporate representatives on 1,537 occasions in the first 10 months of the coalition. This excludes several hundred round-table meetings where numerous companies were present.
Trade bodies, thinktanks and other interest groups had 1,409 meetings. By contrast, charities were met on just 833 occasions, and union representatives just 130 times, less than a tenth as often as their corporate counterparts.
Guardian