VoteClimate: Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill - 3rd September 2013

Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill - 3rd September 2013

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-09-03/debates/13090336000002/TransparencyOfLobbyingNon-PartyCampaigningAndTradeUnionAdministrationBill

15:51 John Robertson (Glasgow North West) (Lab)

We have to agree that not all lobbyists are bad. As Members of Parliament, we get a lot of information from lobbyists that we use to our benefit. There is no way that I, as a member of the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, could see every person who wants a meeting with me, but I try to meet those who will shed a light on whatever idea the Committee is talking about at the time. We use that information when we talk to Ministers and that is how it should be.

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17:45 Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan) (SNP)

That is an important point and I will return to a concrete example from my experience and highlight the work of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition in Scotland, which I think enabled and facilitated cross-party support for the passage of a world-leading piece of legislation—the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. It is exactly such campaigns that will be in jeopardy and might simply not happen, if we take the Electoral Commission’s evidence seriously.

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