questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the policy set out in the Written Ministerial Statement entitled Protecting Public Money of 23 February 2015, HCWS292, on the payment of lobbyists by local authorities remains her Department’s policy; and if she will take steps to ensure that local authorities do not pay lobbyists for work on (a) local government restructuring, (b) the local government finance settlement and spending review and (c) devolution deals.
answerText: The policy as set out in the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity has not changed. 
heading: Local Government: Lobbying