Westminster Accounts: Lobbying and the All-Party Parliamentary Groups
This Is Why
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of this parliament £20m has been given to All-Party Parliamentary Groups. Most of that goes on paying for organisers, reports, research, events and trips.
All of this information was clouded in opaque language and difficult for most voters to access. Now, Sky News and our partners at Tortoise Media have been working to change that, so we can all follow the flow of money through our political system.
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is in Parliament’s Central Lobby with deputy political editor Sam Coates and political producer Tom Larkin to take a closer look at exactly who is donating to individual MPs and their APPGs.
Click here to take a look at the database yourself.
Politics Producer: Tom Larkin
Podcast Producer: Soila Apparicio
Sound Designer: Tom Burchell
Digital Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:02.0 | Take a road trip with your family, get there safely. |
| 0:06.0 | Do your trip checks. |
| 0:08.0 | T, drop up on island fuel, |
| 0:10.0 | R, rest every two hours to. |
| 0:13.0 | I inspect your pressure and tread. |
| 0:16.0 | P, preparing for the weather ahead. |
| 0:18.0 | A safe trip begins with TRIP. Ohis, that means. A safe trip begins with T-R-I-P. |
| 0:21.8 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:23.7 | A safe trip begins with T-R-R-I-E. |
| 0:25.4 | Think, do the four trip checks before every long journey, National Highways. |
| 0:30.7 | Hey, hon, missed you last night. |
| 0:34.0 | Kiss. |
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| 0:38.2 | I hope you feel, no. |
| 0:40.6 | Thinking of, oh, she knows that. |
| 0:43.2 | Okay, what I'm trying to say is, |
| 0:46.1 | you've got this and we've got you. |
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| 1:03.2 | Right, I think it's about time for round three of the Westminster accounts. But already on the daily, |
| 1:08.3 | we have been talking MP's second jobs. We've been making |
| 1:11.9 | quite a lot of reference to donations made to their political campaigns. But now, it's time |
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