{"id":6355,"date":"2013-08-30T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:50:03","slug":"englands-legislation-to-identify-lobbyists-working-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6355","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s legislation to identify lobbyists working for developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed he wants to amend the Transparency of Lobbying Bill, currently before Parliament, to ensure lobbyists working for developers are required to publish their client lists.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bill proposes the introduction of a statutory register of lobbyists as well as other measures to regulate the industry. Under the proposals, lobbyists who deliberately fail to provide client details could face prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The minister has indicated he wants to extend the Bill&#8217;s provisions to local authorities in a move designed to \u2018winkle out\u2019 the \u2018small number\u2019 of lobbyists who \u2018secretly work for developers\u2019 and seek to persuade officials and councillors to approve developments.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State told the Daily Telegraph: \u2018The Bill is an opportunity to extend lobbying registration to local government, so shadowy third-party consultancies who help lobby councillors and council officers act in an open fashion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am committed to increasing transparency and accountability in local government, as an essential check and balance to devolving more power and funding down from Whitehall to the town hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In particular, with the passage of the Localism Act, councils now have more power and discretion over planning \u2013 but it is essential that we safeguard the integrity of the locally-led planning,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/august13\/220813\/22082013_4\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed he wants to amend the Transparency of Lobbying Bill, currently before Parliament, to ensure lobbyists working for developers are required to publish their client lists.\u00a0 The Bill proposes the introduction of a statutory register &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}