PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Lobbying (27 April 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether future grants awarded by her Department to (a) universities and (b) charities will be exempt from the anti-lobbying clause in government grant agreements.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will continue to follow the guidance set by Cabinet Office in all respects of the anti-lobbying clause.

The current guidance to departments is provided on the Government’s website at the following location:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/498271/Implementation_Guidance_for_Departments_on_Anti-Lobbying_Clause.pdf.

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
4 May 2016