Inquiry needed into Government objectivity and impartiality in lobbying reform
Updated: 2012-01-31 17:15:22
Jon Trickett MP, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office has written to the Chair of the Political & constitutional Select Committee ahead of their scrutiny of the Government’ lobbying proposals.
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