INTERESTS OF ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS

Early day motion 652, tabled 3 February 2005 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 40 members.

That this House believes that all financial and other support for all-party parliamentary groups should be declared in the Register of Interests; is alarmed by reports that a pharmaceutical company paid ú100,000 through lobbyists to set up and run health groups; and believes that the work of all party groups is undermined if they are used covertly to smuggle the manipulative influence of commercial bodies into Parliament.

Signatures by party: Labour 26, Liberal Democrat 8, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 2, DUP 1, Labour/Co-operative 1.