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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Alice Campbell-Cree]] | [[Oliver Cardinali]] | [[Emma Carr]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Alessandro Fusco]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[George Paterson]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Peter Shand]] | [[Alex Singleton]] | [[Carl Thomson]] | [[Henk van Klaveren]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]]<ref name="June"> [http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Whitehouse%20Consultancy%20Ltd,%20The Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014] ''APPC'', accessed 17 October 2014 </ref> | [[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Alice Campbell-Cree]] | [[Oliver Cardinali]] | [[Emma Carr]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Alessandro Fusco]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[George Paterson]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Peter Shand]] | [[Alex Singleton]] | [[Carl Thomson]] | [[Henk van Klaveren]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]]<ref name="June"> [http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Whitehouse%20Consultancy%20Ltd,%20The Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014] ''APPC'', accessed 17 October 2014 </ref> | ||
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| + | [[Ajinomoto Co]]. Inc. | [[All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom & Belief]] | [[All Party Parliamentary Group on Pancreatic Cancer]] | [[All-Party Group on Clinical Physiology]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Alliance for HMRC AccountabilityAlliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Arthritis Care Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Assura Group]] | [[BBC]] | [[Bedouin]] | [[BeeHealth]] Ltd | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[Coloplast]] Ltd | [[Communication Matters]] | [[Communication Trust]], The | [[Consumers for Health Choice]] | [[Cool Milk]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Dymatize Enterprises]] LLC | [[Dyslexia SpLD Trust]] | [[EDF Tax]] Ltd | [[Enterprise Rent-a-Car]] | [[European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance]] | [[Foundation of Assistive Technology]] | [[Global Group]] | [[Guardian News and Media]] | [[Health Management]] Ltd | [[Healthnotes]] | [[ITV]] | [[Jos Cervical cancer Trust]] | [[Kimberly-Clark Professional]] | [[LIFT Council]], The | [[Lighterlife]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd | [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Manumixx]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[NASS]] ([[National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools]]) | [[National Hairdressers Federation]] | [[National Obesity Awareness Week 2015]] | [[National Obesity Forum]], The | [[NewsUK]] | [[NHS Partners Network]] | [[No To Retro Tax ]] | [[Olleco]] | [[OneE Group]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[Pancreatic Cancer UK]] | [[Peak Performance]] | [[PerDM Services]] Ltd | [[Prior's Court Foundation]] | [[REG Windpower]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[Right to Life Charitable Trust]] | [[School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sensium Healthcare]] Ltd | [[Sparx]] Ltd | [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[TENS]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[The Gipsy Moth Trust]] | [[TimeWarner]] | [[UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]], The | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Urology User Group Coalition]] | [[Virgin Care]] | [[Vitra AG]]<ref name="sept14"/> | ||
===June 2014-August 2014=== | ===June 2014-August 2014=== | ||
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The Whitehouse Consultancy was originally set up as a private limited company on 2 December 1997 under the name Good News Communications Limited. The name was changed to Whitehouse on 4 January 2002.[1] In Brussels they have an address in the expensive office block, stuffed with lobbyists, next door to the European Parliament in Rue Wiertz.
Contents
Westminster Connections
Christopher Whitehouse is Director of The Westminster Media Forum, The Westminster Diet and Health Forum, The Westminster Education Forum, and the Westminster eForum, all of which are projects of a company called Westminster Forum Projects. All of these organisations are also listed as clients of the Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd[2]
Christopher Whitehouse is also clerk to the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group. He is paid for his services to the group by the BBC, BSkyB, Channel 4 TV, Disney Channel and Time Warner. The cross party group has a membership of over twenty MPs. The office bearers are
- Austin Mitchell | Lord Lipsey | Derek Wyatt | Don Foster | Peter Bottomley | Roger Gale | John Greenway[3]
Complaint against "anti-competitive" register
In June 2008, the Whitehouse Consultancy and DLA Piper Global Government Affairs wrote a letter of complaint to the Public Administration Select Committee, voicing their concerns about organisations refusing to work with agencies not signed up to the Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) register. The letter, signed by Whitehouse Consultancy's managing director Chris Whitehouse, stated:
- We understand fully the Met Office's concern to ensure that it only considers tenders from organisations committed to adherence to high ethical standards. But we consider... that such behaviour, as encouraged by the APPC, is anti-competitive. Having taken legal advice we are strongly of the opinion that this contravenes not only government procurement guidelines but also EU directives... and as such is unlawful".
The letter came several weeks after the Met Office put out a tender for a lobbying firm, specifying that it was 'essential' for the successful consultancy to be part of the APPC.[4]
Health and food
Anna Laukkanen is the Whitehouse consultant that specialises in health policy and regulation, particularly in obesity, food and nutrition issues. The Whitehouse website states she played a "key role in our successful lobbying campaign in Brussels on the Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims Made on Food".[5]
The regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods) was drawn up to "prevent unfounded claims on food packages and to ensure effective functioning of the internal market as regards to nutrition and health claims. ".
The proposal covers two categories of claims: nutrition claims (such as "rich in vitamin C" and "low in fat") and health claims (such as "good for your beauty and your inner harmony") and proposed allowing a category of previously prohibited claims relating to the reduction of disease risk.[6]
The food industry reacted to the proposed regulation by employing PR and lobbying companies to try to kill off or at least amend the regulation.
The controversial areas were Article 4, which laid down the conditions for restricting the use of nutrition and health claims. It called on the Commission to establish nutrient profiles (with reference to fat, sugar and salt/sodium content) for each food category within 18 months from the adoption of the regulation. Another area of contention was article 15, which required certain health claims to go through an authorisation procedure and stipulates that "the proposed wording of the health claim is substantiated by scientific data".
The food industry claimed that the proposed regulation was " an overly-burdensome regulation that will provide very little, if any, benefit to the consumer. This proposal exceeds the powers of the EU to interfere in Member State health policies and would adversely impact on food marketing and advertising, thus removing information from the consumer." Over 269 amendments were laid to the regulation.[7]
Whitehouse also lists the Health Food Manufacturers’ Association HFMA as a client and states that:
- "The members of the HFMA have been threatened by a series of national and European regulatory developments that impose additional burdens upon manufacturers... Our approach has been to position the HFMA both in the UK and in Europe as a powerful voice of the sector and to ensure that it punches above its weight in the corridors of power in Westminster, Whitehall and Brussels. Active involvement with Parliamentarians both in Westminster and in the European Parliament was initiated and developed to position the HFMA as the source of authoritative information, comment and advice on the regulation of the sector.... lobbying visits to the European Parliament, meetings as the European Commission, and a willingness to challenge regulatory decisions in the High Court and the European Court of Justice have all been key elements of the strategy....Firm and robust commitments have been achieved both from the UK Government and from the European Commission about the way in which legislation will in future be developed and implemented."[8]
The consultancy also lists Vitabiotics as a client and states that:
- "Vitabiotics have been working with The Whitehouse Consultancy over threatening EU legislation on nutrition and health claims made on foods... The proposed EU regulation on nutrition and health claims, presented by the European Commission in 2003, proposed setting up a system of prior authorisation for all nutrition and health claims across the EU. This burdensome regulation, which would also have prohibited general well-being claims, would have threatened many existing products and caused significant delay to bringing new products to market...Whitehouse...worked with Vitabiotics to ensure that the company was seen by MEPs and by member state officials as trusted partners throughout negotiations. By working with MEPs as they drafted particular amendments we were able to help ensure that such amendments addressed key concerns and defended the company’s interests.As the legislation progressed we also worked closely with supportive UK Parliamentarians, holding a briefing in the House of Lords, planting Parliamentary Questions and encouraging them to make representations to the Secretary of State and EU Commissioners. The legislation was significantly improved. Vitabiotics is now working closely with the UK government and its regulatory agencies in relation to the interpretation and implementation of the legislation, and has significantly boosted its profile during the process."[9]
Cambridge Health and Weight Plan (CHWP) also employed Whitehouse on these regulations. According to the Whitehouse website:
- " The ... Consultancy has also been liaising with MEPs in Brussels to lobby for favourable amendments to the proposed EU Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims which would potentially prohibition any claims making reference to the rate of weight loss claims...The Consultancy successfully ensured that key amendments to the Nutrition and Health Claims legislation were voted through in the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament thereby significantly improving the proposed legislation.[10]
Lobbying for tax avoidance
In June 2012 it emerged that the Whitehouse Consultancy had been hired by financial consultants NT Advisors [11] to lobby parliamentarians in 2009 against moves to close a major tax avoidance scheme for the super-rich, among them the comedian Jimmy Carr and a hedge fund Tory donor, George Robinson. [12]
People
- Christopher Whitehouse - Chairman
- Helen Munro – Managing Director
- David Hare – Senior Consultant
- Anna Laukkanen – Consultant
- Richard Robinson – Consultant
- Kris Verlé – Consultant
- Katie McDowell – Junior Consultant and Parliamentary Monitoring Coordinator
- Paula Pohja – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant
- Gary Jones – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant
- Lucy Craig – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant[13]
APPC UK
September 2014-November 2014
Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Alice Campbell-Cree | Oliver Cardinali | Emma Carr | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Alessandro Fusco | Declan Mullaney | Helen Munro | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | Frances Powrie | Mayar Raouf | Benjamin Rochelle | Chris Rogers | Guillermo Serrano | Peter Shand | Alex Singleton | Carl Thomson | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk[14]
June 2014-August 2014
Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Alice Campbell-Cree | Oliver Cardinali | Emma Carr | Ben Chiu | Alessandro Fusco | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | George Paterson | Frances Powrie | Mayar Raouf | Chris Rogers | Peter Shand | Alex Singleton | Carl Thomson | Henk van Klaveren | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk[15]
Former People
- Helen Carr - Managing Director
Clients
September 2014-November 2014
Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom & Belief | All Party Parliamentary Group on Pancreatic Cancer | All-Party Group on Clinical Physiology | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for HMRC AccountabilityAlliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Arthritis Care Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | BBC | Bedouin | BeeHealth Ltd | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Cambridge Weight Plan | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | Coloplast Ltd | Communication Matters | Communication Trust, The | Consumers for Health Choice | Cool Milk | Defence Police Federation | Dymatize Enterprises LLC | Dyslexia SpLD Trust | EDF Tax Ltd | Enterprise Rent-a-Car | European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance | Foundation of Assistive Technology | Global Group | Guardian News and Media | Health Management Ltd | Healthnotes | ITV | Jos Cervical cancer Trust | Kimberly-Clark Professional | LIFT Council, The | Lighterlife | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Manumixx | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools) | National Hairdressers Federation | National Obesity Awareness Week 2015 | National Obesity Forum, The | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | No To Retro Tax | Olleco | OneE Group | Paediatric Continence Forum | Pancreatic Cancer UK | Peak Performance | PerDM Services Ltd | Prior's Court Foundation | REG Windpower | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | Right to Life Charitable Trust | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sensium Healthcare Ltd | Sparx Ltd | Telegraph Media Group | TENS | The Equity Release Council | The Gipsy Moth Trust | TimeWarner | UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups, The | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition | Virgin Care | Vitra AG[14]
June 2014-August 2014
Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom & Belief | All Party Parliamentary Group on Pancreatic Cancer | All-Party Group on Clinical Physiology | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for Patient Safety | Arqiva | Arthritis Care Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | BBC | BeeHealth Ltd | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Cambridge Weight Plan | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | CLF Distribution | Coloplast Ltd | Communication Matters | Communication Trust, The | Consumers for Health Choice | Cool Milk | DCC Health & Beauty | Defence Police Federation | Dymatize Enterprises LLC | Dyslexia SpLD Trust | EDF Tax Ltd | Enterprise Rent-a-Car | European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance | Foundation of Assistive Technology | General Nutrition Corporation | Global Group | Grenade | Guardian News and Media | Health Management Ltd | Healthnotes | Healthspark | High Five | ITV | Kimberly-Clark Professional | LIFT Council, The | Lighterlife | Living Fuels | Manfred Sauer | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | MP Bio Science | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools) | National Obesity Awareness Week 2015 | National Obesity Forum, The | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | No To Retro Tax | Olleco | Paediatric Continence Forum | Pancreatic Cancer UK | PerDM Services Ltd | Prior's Court Foundation | REG Windpower | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | Right to Life Charitable Trust | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sensium Healthcare Ltd | Telegraph Media Group | The Equity Release Council | The Gipsy Moth Trust | TimeWarner | UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups, The | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition | Vergnet SA | Virgin Care | Vitra AG[15]
As of 01/09/09-30/11/09
Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | Ajinomoto Sweeteners Europe SAS | The Anthony Nolan Trust | AOM International | Assura Group PLC | British Gurkha Welfare Society | Cambridge Health & Weight Plan | Consumers for Health Choice | EAS UK Ltd (Sports Nutrition) for Abbott Laboratories | The Field Studies Council | Green2Go Ltd | The Health Food Manufacturers’ Association (www.hfma.co.uk) | Healthnotes Inc | The European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (Supported by Garnell Corporation Ltd, Weider Publishing Ltd, CLF Distribution, Maximuscle Ltd, Twinlab Corporation, Tropicana Health and Fitness Ltd, The Health Food Manufacturers’ Association, Abbott Logistics (EAS), Holland and Barrett, Reflex Nutrition, CNP Professional Ltd, Carbery, Weider Germany Gmbh, Natrol UK Ltd, USN UK Ltd, US Nutrition Ltd, Volac, Myprotein.co.uk, Sci-MX Nutrition Ltd and the European Health Product Manufacturers’ Association) | The LIFT Council, formerly LIFT LOBI (Local Improvement Finance Trust: Liaison Organisation for Business Investors) www.liftlobi.co.uk & www.liftcouncil.org.uk (supported by Accent Partnerships, Amber Infrastructure, Community Solutions for Primary Care, Eric Wright Group, Guildhouse Investment Management, Infracare Partnering, Assura Group, Sapphire Primary Care Developments, | Campaign Against Unfair and Illegal Competition from the Channel Islands (Health Food Manufacturers’ Association and others) | The Communication Trust (in association with I CAN, Afasic, The Department for Children Schools and Families, British Telecom’s “BT Better World Campaign”, and the Council for Disabled Children). | The Urology Trade Association (including Jade-Euro Med, Coloplast Ltd, Bard Ltd, Astra Tech Ltd, Rochester Medical Ltd, Manfred Sauer, Hunter Urology Ltd, Unomedical Ltd/Convatec, Great Bear Healthcare Ltd, LINC Medical Systems, CliniMed | Holland and Barrett Group | I CAN | Lhoist UK | LighterLife | Maximuscle Ltd | Mentoring and Befriending Foundation | National Aids Trust | REG Bio Power Ltd (Living Fuels) | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | Rochester Bridge Trust | Swimming Teachers Association | Systagenix Wound Management | UK Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (with Convert 2 Green, Green2Go and Equity Solutions) | The UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups (supported by LighterLife and Cambridge Health and Weight Plan and other distributors around Europe) Sewell Group, Primary Plus, the Fulcrum Group, Equity Solutions and Galliford Try). | The All-Party Parliamentary Media Group (supported by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Time Warner, Disney Channel, BSkyB and Arqiva, and with briefing breakfasts funded by Ofcom, ITV, BBC, Channel 4, Blackberry, Freesat, British Telecom, The Department of Culture Media and Sport and others) Ltd, Mediplus Ltd and Hollister Ltd) | Urology Products User Group Coalition (funded by the Urology Trade Association and including Spinal Injuries Association, Bladder & Bowel Foundation, PromoCon, Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, MS Trust, Urostomy Association, The Back-Up Trust and ERIC). | The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Umbilical Cord Blood and Adult Stem Cells (funded by the Anthony Nolan Trust) Fee [16]
2010
|Slimming World |Westminster Forum Projects |The British Health Care Association [17]
Contact
The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd Southbank House, Black Prince Road, London, SE1 7SJ Phone: +44 (0)20 7463 0690 Fax: +44 (0)20 7463 0691 Email: info@whitehouseconsulting.co.uk Ltd company number: 03474580.
Whitehouse Europe rue Wiertz 50/28, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 401 87 98 Fax: +32 (0)2 401 68 68 Email: info@whitehouse-europe.com
Website: http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/
Resources
- The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 30.11.03-31.05.04
- The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients Sep 07-Nov 07
- The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
- The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2008 to 31 August 2008
- The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009
Notes
- ↑ http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9cad5b826cc1f54f6e61174774a9322a/compdetails accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ About us accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/memi352.htm House of Commons Publications and Records, Register of All-party Groups accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ David Singleton, "Agencies voice concern over APPC-only contracts", PR Week UK, 12.06.08, accessed 10.09.10
- ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/aboutus.aspx#anna accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/nutrition-health-claims-foods/article-133154 accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/604/604663/604663en.pdf European Parliament Committee on Environment Public Health and Food Safety Amendments doc accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ Whitehouse Consulting HFMA Case study, Accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/casestudies/vitabiotics.aspx accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/casestudies/cambridgehwp.aspx accessed 1 December
- ↑ See The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009, Powerbase
- ↑ Jamie Doward and Caroline Mortimer , How advisers to stars lobbied MPs to make it a human right to avoid tax, The Observer, Saturday 23 June 2012, 19.18pm
- ↑ Whitehouse Consultancy About us, accessed 15 November 2007
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 26 January 2015
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 17 October 2014
- ↑ APPC Register Entry for 1 September 2009 to 30 November 2009APPC Register Entry accessed 02/03/10
- ↑ Whitehouse Consultancy Current and former clients include:, accessed 23 December, 2010
