The Independent (London)

January 24, 2008 Thursday

First Edition

Pandora

BYLINE: OLIVER DUFF

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 16

The founders of a new pressure group, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency, will this morning give evidence to a select committee inquiry into the dark art. Lobbying is essential in so far as it helps politicians and decision-makers to understand the vested interests of the day, but the group demands greater transparency. One of its founders, Professor David Miller, of Strathclyde University, will suggest a mandatory register of lobbyists and a stringent ethics policy to prevent civil servants, ex-ministers and their relatives from cashing in.