{"id":64849,"date":"2015-12-01T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8d9238b9cfa07683741e0b11fd79eb0c"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T13:27:00","slug":"news-story-government-responds-to-committees-report-on-lobbying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64849","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government responds to Committee\u2019s report on lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Lord Bew has replied welcoming the Government\u2019s assurance that transparency around lobbying is a key priority and the acceptance of a number of recommendations the Committee believes are important. In particular, the Committee welcomes the commitment to improving the timeliness and accessibility of the published information about Ministers\u2019 and Permanent Secretaries\u2019 official meetings with outside interest groups and hospitality received by ministers and members of departmental boards. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/government-response-to-lobbying-report\">Government\u2019s response and accompanying letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee will continue to monitor developments in this area in order to promote the highest standards of propriety in public life. Read Lord Bew\u2019s blog post <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/cspl.blog.gov.uk\/2015\/02\/11\/lobbying-current-arrangements-are-not-enough\/\">\u2018Current arrangements aren\u2019t enough\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has responded to the Committee\u2019s 2013 report \u2018Strengthening Transparency around lobbying\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}