Failure by design: the Lobbying Act at Ten

This report, published in June 2024, lays bare the fundamental flaws in the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (The Lobbying Act).

Analysing data from the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL) on investigations into suspected unregistered consultant lobbying between June 2019 and February 2024, including the Greensill and Owen Paterson scandals, it finds that the vast majority of lobbying communications investigated are not required to be registered due to the numerous exemptions and loopholes in the Act.

The report reveals that the Lobbying Act, rather than promoting its transparency as intended, instead actively undermines it. It concludes that the Act is fundamentally broken and renews the CIPR’s call for fresh legislation to create a comprehensive register of not just lobbyists, but all lobbying activity.


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