Ministers’ meetings · Register of Consultant Lobbyists

Lobbying

Who gets in the room with government ministers, and who pays professional lobbyists to speak for them. Meetings come from the returns each department publishes; lobbying firms and their clients come from the statutory Register of Consultant Lobbyists. Choose an organisation to see every meeting and every lobbying firm it used.

Ministers’ meeting entries

17,687

Organisations ranked

616

Lobbying firms on the register

315

Who meets ministers most

#	Organisation	Meetings	Ministers	Lobbying firms
1	Local Government AssociationTrade or business body	81	27	n/a
2	Trades Union CongressUnion	58	29	n/a
3	Federation of Small BusinessesTrade or business body	51	22	n/a
4	UNISONUnion	49	25	2
5	Confederation of British IndustryTrade or business body	46	22	1
6	British Chambers of CommerceTrade or business body	43	20	2
7	UniteUnion	43	20	n/a
8	GMBUnion	41	21	n/a
9	BarclaysCompany	40	20	n/a
10	BPCompany	40	15	2
11	National GridCompany	36	14	1
12	AirbusCompany	31	12	2
13	Citizens AdviceCharity	30	17	1
14	HSBCCompany	30	17	3
15	SSECompany	30	13	3
16	Energy UKTrade or business body	29	10	1
17	ProspectUnion	28	17	2
18	Heathrow AirportCompany	27	11	3
19	ShellCompany	27	10	2
20	AvivaCompany	26	20	2
21	GoogleCompany	26	13	5
22	National Farmers' UnionTrade or business body	26	9	n/a
23	NatWestCompany	26	17	3
24	Rolls-RoyceCompany	25	12	3
25	Make UKTrade or business body	24	10	4
26	National Network of Parent Carer ForumsCharity	24	6	n/a
27	techUKTrade or business body	24	12	n/a
28	Lloyds Banking GroupCompany	21	13	2
29	EDFCompany	20	9	1
30	Nationwide Building SocietyCompany	20	11	1

212 of the ranked organisations also appear as a client of a consultant lobbying firm.

Consultant lobbyists

Firms that lobby ministers or permanent secretaries for a paying client must register and name their clients every quarter. Lobbyists employed directly by the organisation they lobby for, do not have to register.

Firms with the most clients, April to June 2026

1Policy Connect Limited93 clients
25654 & Company Limited43 clients
3Political Lobbying & Media Relations Limited42 clients
4Connect Public Affairs Limited28 clients
5Cavendish Consulting Limited27 clients
6FTI Consulting LLP25 clients
7Pagefield Communications Limited21 clients
856 Degrees North Ltd20 clients
9DGA Group UK Limited19 clients
10Rud Pedersen UK Limited18 clients
11WA Communications Ltd18 clients
12Hanbury Strategy and Communications Limited17 clients
13Atticus Partners Ltd16 clients
14College Green Group Ltd16 clients
15Grasshopper Communications Limited16 clients

Who lobbies for…

How this is counted. A meeting is one entry in a minister’s published return, so a meeting with two ministers counts once for each, as the government publishes it. Organisations are counted only when their name matches a spelling checked by hand or GOV.UK’s official list of public bodies; job titles, people’s names and names that could mean more than one organisation are left out of the rankings but kept in the meeting records. So far 29% of the 49,173 organisation names in the meeting returns are matched; the rest are still to be checked, so less frequent visitors may be missing from the rankings. Departments publish their returns months after the meetings, so the most recent months are incomplete. The lobbyist register covers April 2024 to June 2026. Sources: GOV.UK ministers’ meetings transparency returns and the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists quarterly returns, both under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Ministers’ meetings lobbying index last updated 18 October 2026. Source: GOV.UK ministers’ meetings transparency returns.

Consultant lobbyists and their clients last updated 17 October 2026. Source: Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists quarterly returns.