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THE use of WhatsApp to lobby ministers should be subject to the same transparency rules as face-to-face meetings, a panel of MPs said today.
And if new transparency measures do not “command public confidence,” then such messaging systems should be blocked on official devices, added the Commons committee for administration and constitutional affairs.
Informal lobbying has become a growing concern since the Greensill scandal, which involved Lord Cameron, then a private citizen and now Foreign Secretary, pressing ministers and officials to help the firm then employing him.
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