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From climate to health: the private firms helping to run MPs’ interest groups
Exclusive: Guardian and openDemocracy analysis reveals full reach of lobbyists acting as APPG secretariats • MPs’ interest groups receive £13m from private firms For charities and campaigning backbenchers like the late Sir David Amess, all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) are vital platforms for a plethora of good causes and interest areas they wish to promote. To their critics, they can appear as unreformed relics of a past, less-regulated Westminster landscape. But amid the swirl of roundtable discussions, drinks, overseas trips and reports, dozens of communications and public affairs companies are helping to run more than 100 such groups, out of a total of 755, with sponsorship from corporate interests . Continue reading... Ben Quinn, Tatev Hovhannisyan and Peter Geoghegan




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