Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether staff at the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists are instructed to cross-reference information from published ministerial meetings data with that provided by companies on the register in their returns.

The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 requires the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists to maintain and update the register of which requires consultant lobbyists to declare on whose behalf they are lobbying.