title: Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
text: # Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
  
  The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency is a UK-based organisation formed in September 2007 and formally launched in January 2008 and concerned with the influence of lobbying on government decision-making.
  
  The Alliance is also campaigning for a mandatory lobbyists register, while the UK Public Affairs Council is a lobby industry body supporting self-regulation. The UKPAC published its first register in March 2011 and the Alliance was immediately critical, saying an estimated 85-90% of lobbyists were shunning it, and highlighting condemnation by Austin Mitchell MP and others.
  
  ## Members
  
  Alliance members include charities, campaign groups and a trade union.
  
  * Action Aid
  * Campaign Against Arms Trade
  * Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
  * Corporate Watch
  * enough'senough.org
  * Friends of the Earth
  * Greenpeace
  * National Union of Journalists
  * Pesticide Action Network
  * Platform
  * SPEAK network
  * SpinWatch (SpinWatch's director Tamasin Cave is sometimes quoted as head of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency)
  * Unlock Democracy
  * War on Want
  * World Development Movement
  
  Some Alliance members are also supporters of a related European initiative, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), a coalition concerned with corporate lobbyists' influence on the political agenda in Europe.
  
  ## Funding
  
  The Alliance has received funding via a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust's Power and Responsibility programme, and gets support from coalition members.
  
  