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Westminster Accounts: Lobbying and the All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Westminster Accounts: Lobbying and the All-Party Parliamentary Groups

FromSky News Daily


Westminster Accounts: Lobbying and the All-Party Parliamentary Groups

FromSky News Daily

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jan 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For decades, if you wanted to find out how businesses and foreign governments lobby MPs, and how much they give them, you'd need to study dozens of entries in several editions of the register of members’ interests. Over the course of this parliament £20m has been given to All-Party Parliamentary Groups. Most of that goes on paying for organisers, reports, research, events and trips. All of this information was clouded in opaque language and difficult for most voters to access. Now, Sky News and our partners at Tortoise Media have been working to change that, so we can all follow the flow of money through our political system. On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is in Parliament’s Central Lobby with deputy political editor Sam Coates and political producer Tom Larkin to take a closer look at exactly who is donating to individual MPs and their APPGs. Click here to take a look at the database yourself.Politics Producer: Tom Larkin Podcast Producer: Soila Apparicio Sound Designer: Tom Burchell Digital Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku Editor: Philly Beaumont
Released:
Jan 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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