Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

Jim Cunningham Excerpts

Tuesday 3rd September 2013 Commons Chamber

[Ms Eagle]

As always, my hon. Friend has good advice for the Conservative party.

[Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)]

I notice that the Leader of the House kept avoiding certain people who wanted to intervene. More importantly, does my hon. Friend agree that we and many other people thought that the Bill would deal with the lobbying industry? We now find out that the voluntary sector and the trade unions are getting a hammering, but there is nothing about terms and conditions for shareholders and companies donating to political parties. Do she not think that we need some legislation there?

[Ms Eagle]

My hon. Friend is right. The Bill can best be summed up as furious displacement activity by a Government who hope that the public will not notice their problems with lobbying.