The Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016: How to enforce it and does it need to be strengthened?

The Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016: How to enforce it and does it need to be strengthened?

How can we use lobbying laws to challenge the influence of big businesses and wealthy individuals in politics? Are our lobbying laws strong enough to prevent corruption?

The Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 requires information to be published about who is influencing our politicians and other government officials.

Public records tell us that corporate representatives dominate lobbying meetings. Their efforts are working: oil and gas companies are trying to block a just transition to net zero, while industry lobbying successfully delayed the deposit return scheme and erased ultra-processed foods from the Good Food Nation Act.

Join us to hear about how to enforce our existing lobbying laws and discuss whether they need to be strengthened. Our panel of experts monitoring and investigating lobbying are:

• Ian Bruce, Ethical Standards Commissioner
• Ric Lander, Friends of the Earth Scotland
• Juliet Swann, Transparency International
• [Speaker to be confirmed]

Accessibility

The event is free to attend and will be hosted on Zoom.

Zoom details will be emailed to all attendees before the event.

We want this event to be accessible to all. If you have any particular accessibility requirements, please contact Jack (email: events@ercs.scot, tel: 0131 358 0038) as soon as you can so that we can make any arrangements required. BSL users can contact us via an online BSL/English interpreter.

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Webinar: Using the law to challenge corporate lobbying