division_name: Lobbying of Government Committee
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a325.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That the following Standing Order shall have effect until <phrase class="date" code="2021-12-31">31 December</phrase> 2021:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a325.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Investigation into the Lobbying of Government Committee</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a325.2/23" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a334.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I believe that secret corporate lobbying&#8230;goes to the heart of why people are so fed up with politics. It arouses people&#8217;s worst fears and suspicions about how our political system works, with money buying power, power fishing for money and a cosy club at the top making decisions in their own interest. It&#8217;s an issue that...has tainted our politics for too long, an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a334.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If we win the election, we will take a lead on this issue by making sure that ex-ministers are not allowed to use their contacts and knowledge&#8212;gained while being paid by the public to serve the public&#8212;for their own private gain.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a334.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We all know how it works. The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a334.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It&#8217;s not clear to me why MPs or peers should have any special expertise on whether a company is qualified to provide PPE.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a336.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;$11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a337.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We can&#8217;t go on like this&#8230;it&#8217;s time we shone the light&#8230;on lobbying in our country and forced our politics to come clean about who is buying power and influence.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a341.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;next big scandal waiting to happen&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a342.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a349.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We all know how it works. The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a353.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A little bit of money goes a long way.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a356.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;is an insult to all self employed and freelancers&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a362.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Democracy is deeper than sporadic elections, it is about what happens in between with citizens&#8217; voice, rights and power. That requires guarding the independence and voice of civil society and is why measures in the Lobbying Act which mutes so many, really must go.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a370.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the situation in which someone important gives jobs to friends rather than to independent people who have the necessary skills and experience&#8221;.</p>