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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.<ref>
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'''The Whitehouse Consultancy''' is a commercial lobbying firm based in London, established in 1997.
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http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9cad5b826cc1f54f6e61174774a9322a/compdetails accessed 1 December 2007</ref> In Brussels they have an address in the expensive office block, stuffed with lobbyists, next door to the European Parliament in [[Rue Wiertz]].
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It was formerly known as [[Good News Communications Limited]]. The name was changed to Whitehouse on 4 January 2002.<ref>
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http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9cad5b826cc1f54f6e61174774a9322a/compdetails accessed 1 December 2007</ref>  
  
 
== Westminster Connections ==
 
== Westminster Connections ==
  
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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]]<ref>  
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[[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]]<ref>  
 
[http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/aboutus.aspx About us] accessed 1 December 2007 </ref>
 
[http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/aboutus.aspx About us] accessed 1 December 2007 </ref>
  
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==Lobbying for tax avoidance==
 
==Lobbying for tax avoidance==
 
In June 2012 it emerged that the Whitehouse Consultancy had been hired by financial consultants [[NT Advisors]] <ref> See [[The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009]], Powerbase </ref> 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]]. <ref> Jamie Doward and Caroline Mortimer , [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/23/jimmy-carr-tax-avoidance How advisers to stars lobbied MPs to make it a human right to avoid tax], The Observer, Saturday 23 June 2012, 19.18pm </ref>
 
In June 2012 it emerged that the Whitehouse Consultancy had been hired by financial consultants [[NT Advisors]] <ref> See [[The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009]], Powerbase </ref> 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]]. <ref> Jamie Doward and Caroline Mortimer , [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/23/jimmy-carr-tax-avoidance How advisers to stars lobbied MPs to make it a human right to avoid tax], The Observer, Saturday 23 June 2012, 19.18pm </ref>
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==Lobbying for corporate education industry==
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Whitehouse says it has 'extensive experience' of working in the field of education and provides support to a large number of organisations including: children’s charities, education providers, representative groups and multi-academy trusts. It says it provides a range of advice on schools policy, funding, and market access, among other things. It says:
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:'With significant reform under-way in UK education and children’s services policy our clients need to understand the changes that are being developed, develop considered and appropriate responses and inform and interact with key policy makers and commissioners'.<ref>[http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/our-sectors/education-and-childrens-services/ Education services], Whitehouse Consultancy website, accessed August 2015</ref>
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Its listed lobbying clients in 2015 include:
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*[[Bright Tribe]], a multi-academy trust
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*[[NASS]], ([[National Association of Independent Schools and Non- Maintained Special Schools]])
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It also lobbies for clients that are pushing for reform of education systems that benefit corporate interests. In 2015 these include:
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*[[NewsUK]]
  
 
==People==
 
==People==
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* [[Christopher Whitehouse]] – Managing Director
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*[[Christopher Whitehouse]], founder and chairman. Spent 14 years as an assistant to many MPs and Peers in the House of Lords and Commons.<ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chriswhitehousepublicaffairs Christopher Whitehouse] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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*  [[David Hare]] – Senior Consultant
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*[[Helen Munro]], managing director
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* [[Anna Laukkanen]] – Consultant
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*[[Carl Thomson]], director. Stood for the [[Conservative Party]] in Glasgow East in the 2005 General Election, coming fourth as [[David Marshall]] of the [[Labour Party]] won.<ref> [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/person/9229/carl-thomson http://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/959/glasgow-east] ''Guardian'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref> Was a research assistant to [[Theresa May]] MP (2004-2005) and a senior parliamentary assistant to [[John Redwood]] MP (2005-2010)<ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/in/carlthomson Carl Thomson] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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* [[Richard Robinson]] – Consultant
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*[[Alex Singleton]], associate director. Former journalist at the The [[Telegraph]] newspaper, appeared on shows such as the Today programme, Newsnight, The Moral Maze and Channel Four’s comedy show 10 O’Clock Live, founder of the [[Globalisation Institute]] and worked as the Research Director of the [[Adam Smith Institute]].<ref> [http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/about-us/our-team/alex-singleton/ David Singleton]] ''Whitehouse Consultancy'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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* [[Kris Verlé]] – Consultant
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*[[Katarzyna Wilk]], senior political consultant. Former parliamentary assistant to a Polish MEP
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* [[Katie McDowell]] – Junior Consultant and Parliamentary Monitoring Coordinator
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*[[Chris Rogers]], head of public relations
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* [[Paula Pohja]] – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant
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*[[Frances Powrie]], senior political consultant. Spent seven months working in the office of [[Gary Titley]] MEP, Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party<ref> [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/frances-powrie/70/371/594?trk=pub-pbmap Frances Powrie] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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* [[Gary Jones]] – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant
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*[[Sam Blainey]], political consultant. Worked in the office of [[Andrew Dismore]] MP<ref> [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sam-blainey/8a/4b9/785 Sam Blainey] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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* [[Lucy Craig]] – Parliamentary Monitor/Junior Consultant<ref>Whitehouse Consultancy [http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/aboutus.aspx About us], accessed 15 November 2007</ref>
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*[[Oliver Cardinali]], political consultant
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*[[Peter Shand]], political consultant
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*[[Mayar Raouf]], communications consultant
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*[[Ben Rochelle]], political consultant
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*[[Guillermo Serrano]], political consultant. Former research and communications officer at the [[European Movement UK]], assistant to the director at the [[Council for European Palestinian Relations]], junior fellow at the [[Global Policy Institute]], EU junior analyst at [[DeHavilland]] EU, junior assistant to [[Luis Yáñez]] MEP at the European Parliament and a junior research associate at [[Global Policy Institute London]].<ref> [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/guillermo-serrano-pe%C3%B1a/4a/294/444?trk=pub-pbmap Guillermo Serrano]] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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===APPC UK===
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====December 2015-February 2016====
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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Robert Ede]] | [[Declan Mullaney]] | [[Helen Munro]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[John Punter]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Benjamin Rochelle]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Aidan Rylatt]] | [[Rhiannon Sanders]] | [[Guillermo Serrano]] | [[Jack Taylor]] | [[Carl Thomson]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]] <ref name="Dec15">[http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Whitehouse%20Consultancy%20Ltd,%20The Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Dec-Feb16], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====September 2015-November 2015====
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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Robert Ede]] | [[Sofie Hooper]] | [[Declan Mullaney]] | [[Helen Munro]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[John Punter]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Benjamin Rochelle]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Aidan Rylatt]] | [[Rhiannon Sanders]] | [[Guillermo Serrano]] | [[Peter Shand]] | [[Jack Taylor]] | [[Carl Thomson]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]] | <ref name="Sep15">[http://www.appc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/APPC-Register-November-2015.pdf Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Sep-Nov15], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====June 2015-August 2015====
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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Alice Campbell-Cree]] | [[Oliver Cardinali]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Robert Ede]] | [[Sofie Hooper]] | [[Declan Mullaney]] | [[Helen Munro]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[John Punter]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Leonie Rischter]] | [[Benjamin Rochelle]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Rhiannon Sanders]] | [[Guillermo Serrano]] | [[Peter Shand]] | [[Jack Taylor]] |
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[[Carl Thomson]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]] <ref name="Jun15">[http://www.appc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/APPC-Register-August-2015.pdf Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Jun-Aug15], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====March 2015-May 2015====
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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Alice Campbell-Cree]] | [[Oliver Cardinali]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Robert Ede]] | [[Sofie Hooper]] | [[Declan Mullaney]] | [[Helen Munro]] | [[Julia Ogiehor]] | [[Elias Papadopoulos]] | [[Frances Powrie]] | [[Mayar Raouf]] | [[Benjamin Rochelle]] | [[Chris Rogers]] | [[Guillermo Serrano]] | [[Peter Shand]] | [[Carl Thomson]] | [[Chris Whitehouse]] | [[Katarzyna Wilk]] <ref name="Mar15">[http://www.appc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/MAY-2015-REGISTER-FINAL.pdf Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Mar-May15], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====December 2014-February 2015====
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[[Rowan Allport]] | [[Sam Blainey]] | [[Joanna Camadoo]] | [[Alice Campbell-Cree]] | [[Oliver Cardinali]] | [[Emma Carr]] | [[Ben Chiu]] | [[Robert Ede]] | [[Sofie Hooper]] | [[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]] |
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[[Katarzyna Wilk]] <ref name="Dec14">[http://www.appc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/FEB-2015-REGISTER-27.5.15-final.pdf Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Dec-Feb15], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====September 2014-November 2014====
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[[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]]<ref name="sept14"> [http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Whitehouse%20Consultancy%20Ltd,%20The Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014] ''APPC'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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====June 2014-August 2014====
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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 (PR)| 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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===Former People===
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*[[Helen Carr]], managing director
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*[[David Hare]], director. Is now chief executive of the [[NHS Partners Network]]<ref> [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/david-hare/14/a32/9a9 David Hare] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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*[[Anna Laukkanen]], consultant
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*[[Richard Robinson]], senior consultant. Former associate director at [[Fleishman-Hillard]], is now policy and public affairs manager at [[Bristol-Myers Squibb]]<ref> [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/richard-robinson/26/902/554 Richard Robinson] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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*[[Kris Verlé]], consultant
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*[[Katie McDowell]], political consultant. Is now a freelance policy & public affairs consultant at [[Katie McDowell Consulting]]
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*[[Paula Pohja-Hutchison]], consultant. Now an associate director at [[MHP Communications]]<ref> [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paula-pohja-hutchison/1b/b7/955 Paula Pohja-Hutchinson] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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*[[Gary Jones]], consultant. Former parliamentary assistant at [[Mark Prisk]] MP and a member of the health and education policy committee at [[The Bow Group]]. Now a government affairs manager at [[AbbVie]]
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* [[Lucy Craig]], junior consultant. Now a senior account manager at the [[PR Office]]<ref> [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/lucy-craig/10/1bb/a2 Lucy Craig] ''Linkedin'', accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
  
 
==Clients==
 
==Clients==
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===Registrar of consultant lobbyists===
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The register of consultant lobbyists documents those clients on behalf of whom the '''Whitehouse Consultancy''' has lobbied government ministers and the firm's listings since 2015 are as follows:
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====April - June 2016====
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[[All Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Enterprise Rent-A-Car]] | [[Equity Release Council]] | [[Hoolan Energy]] | [[IMH Events]] | [[Low Carbon]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[REG Bio-Power]] <ref>[https://registerofconsultantlobbyists.force.com/CLR_Public_Profile?id=00124000005zuYMAAY 'The Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2016'], ''Register of consultant lobbyists'', accessed 25 July 2016</ref>
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====January - March 2016====
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[[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Enterprise Rent-A-Car]] | [[JanUary]] | [[Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[Low Carbon]] | [[National Association of Independent Schools & Non-Maintained Special Schools]] (NASS) | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] <ref>[https://registerofconsultantlobbyists.force.com/CLR_Public_Profile?id=00124000005zuYMAAY Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2016], ''Registrar of consultant lobbyists'', accessed 3 May 2016</ref>
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====October - December 2015====
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[[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Enterprise Rent-A-Car]] | [[Google]] | [[JanUary]] | [[LIFT Council]] | [[Low Carbon]]
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====July - September 2015====
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[[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[London Leadership Strategy]] | [[Low Carbon]] | [[Musical Futures]] | [[Olleco]] | [[Vitra]]
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====April - June 2015====
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[[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Consumers for Health Choice]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[Low Carbon]] | [[Maximus]] | [[Olleco]]
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====January - March 2015====
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[[Action Cerebral Palsy]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Enterprise Rent-A-Car]] | [[Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[Low Carbon]] | [[National Obesity Awareness Week]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]]
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<ref>[https://registerofconsultantlobbyists.force.com/CLR_Public_Profile?id=00124000005zuYMAAY Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2015], ''Registrar of consultant lobbyists'', accessed 9 February 2016</ref>
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===APPC lobbying register===
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====December 2015-February 2016====
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[[Action Cerebral Palsy]] | [[Ajinomoto Co. Inc.]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Alliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Asia TV]]  [[Assura Group]] | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Britvic]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Camelot]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[CLL Support Association]] | [[Communication Trust, The]] | [[Consumers for Health Choice]] | [[Cool Milk]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Enterprise Rent-a-Car]] | [[European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance]] | [[Global Group]] | [[Google]] | [[Health Management]] Ltd | [[JanUary]] | [[Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[LIFT Council, The]] | [[Lighterlife]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd | [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[Musical Futures]] | [[NASS]] (National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools)| [[National Obesity Forum, The]] | [[NewsUK]] | [[NHS Partners Network]] | [[Nur Energie]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[Prior's Court Foundation]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sparx]] Ltd | [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[TimeWarner]] | [[UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups, The]] | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Urology User Group Coalition]] | [[Vitra AG]] | [[World DAB]] <ref name="Dec15">[http://www.appc.org.uk/members/register/register-profile/?company=Whitehouse%20Consultancy%20Ltd,%20The The Whitehouse Consultancy client list, Dec-Feb16], ''APPC'', accessed 27 April 2016</ref>
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====September 2015-November 2015====
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[[Action Cerebral Palsy]] | [[Ajinomoto Co. Inc.]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Alliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Assura Group]] | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Britvic]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Camelot]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[The Communication Trust]] | [[Consumers for Health Choice]] | [[Cool Milk]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Enterprise Rent-a-Car]] | [[European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance]] |  [[Global Group]] | [[Google]] | [[Health Management]] Ltd | [[JanUary]] | [[Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[The LIFT Council]] | [[Lighterlife]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd | [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[Musical Futures]] | [[NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools)]] | [[The National Obesity Forum]] | [[NewsUK]] | [[NHS Partners Network]] | [[Olleco]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[Prior's Court Foundation]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sparx]] Ltd| [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[TimeWarner UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]] | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Urology User Group Coalition]] | [[Trust & ERIC]] | [[Virgin Care]] | [[Vitra AG]] | [[World DAB]] <ref name="Sep15"/>
  
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This is a list of the fee paying clients of the Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd as of 01/09/09 - 30/11/09
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====June 2015-August 2015====
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[[Action Cerebral Palsy]] | [[Ajinomoto Co. Inc.]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Alliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Assura Group]] | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Britvic]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Caritas Anchor House]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[Coloplast]] Ltd | [[The Communication Trust]] | [[Consumers for Health Choice]] | [[Cool Milk]] | [[Defence Police Federation]] | [[Dymatize Enterprises]] LLC | [[Dyslexia SpLD Trust]] | [[Enterprise Rent-a-Car]] | [[European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance]] | [[Global Group]] | [[Google]] | [[Health Management]] Ltd | [[IdeasTap]] | [[Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[The LIFT Council]] |[[Lighterlife]] | [[London Leadership Strategy]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd | [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[Musical Futures]] | [[NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools)]] | [[National Obesity Awareness Week 2015]] | [[The National Obesity Forum]] | [[No To Retro Tax]] | [[Olleco]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[PerDM Services]] Ltd | [[Prior's Court Foundation]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sparx]] Ltd | [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[The Gipsy Moth Trust]] | [[TimeWarner]] | [[UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]] | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Urology User Group Coalition]] | [[Trust & ERIC]] | [[Virgin Care]] | [[Vitra AG]] | [[World DMB]] <ref name="Jun15"/>
  
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Ajinomoto Co. Inc.
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[[Ajinomoto Co. Inc.]] | [[All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom & Belief]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity]] | [[All-Party Parliamentary Media Group]] | [[Alliance for HMRC Accountability Alliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Assura Group]] | [[Bedouin]] | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Britvic]] | [[Business & Commercial Finance Club]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[Coloplast]] Ltd | [[The Communication Trust]] |[[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]] | [[Global Group Health Management]] Ltd | [[IdeasTap]] | [[Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[Kimberly-Clark Professional]] | [[The LIFT Council]] | [[Lighterlife]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd |  [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools)]] | [[National Hairdressers Federation]] | [[National Obesity Awareness Week 2015]] | [[NewsUK]] | [[NHS Partners Network]] | [[No To Retro Tax]] | [[Olleco]] | [[OneE Group]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[Peak Performance]] | [[PerDM Services]] Ltd | [[Prior's Court Foundation Registration]] | [[Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sensium Healthcare]] Ltd | [[SITA UK]] | [[Sparx]] Ltd | [[Spink Health]] | [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[TENS]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[The Gipsy Moth Trust]] | [[TimeWarner]] | [[UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]] | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Urology User Group Coalition]] |[[Trust & ERIC]] | [[Vitra AG]] | [[World DMB]] <ref name="Mar15"/>
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Sweeteners Europe
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SAS
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| The Anthony Nolan Trust
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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 Accountability Alliance for Patient Safety]] | [[Andromeda Capital]] | [[Arqiva]] | [[Arthritis Care]] | [[Association of Educational Psychologists]] | [[Assura Group]] | [[BBC]] | [[Bedouin]] | [[BeeHealth]] Ltd | [[Bright Tribe]] | [[British Telecommunications]] | [[Business & Commercial Finance Club]] | [[Cambridge Weight Plan]] | [[Cancer 52]] | [[Chailey Heritage School]] | [[Channel 4 Television]] | [[Coloplast]] Ltd | [[Communication Matters]] | [[Communication Trust, The]] | [[Complete Childcare Group]] | [[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]] |
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| AOM International
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[[Guardian News and Media]] | [[Health Management]] Ltd | [[Healthnotes]] | [[IdeasTap]] | [[ITV]] | [[Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust]] | [[Kimberly-Clark Professional]] | [[The LIFT Council]] | [[Lighterlife]] | [[Low Carbon]] Ltd | [[Manfred Sauer]] | [[Manumixx]] | [[Maximus Employment and Training]] Ltd | [[NASS]] (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools) | [[National Hairdressers Federation]] | [[National Obesity Awareness Week 2015]] | [[NewsUK]] | [[NHS Partners Network]] | [[No To Retro Tax]] | [[Olleco]] | [[OneE Group]] | [[Paediatric Continence Forum]] | [[Peak Performance]] | [[PerDM Services]] Ltd | [[Prior's Court Foundation]] | [[REG Windpower]] | [[Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists]] | [[Right to Life Charitable Trust]] | [[RocketMill School and Nursery Milk Alliance]] | [[Sensium Healthcare]] Ltd | [[SITA UK]] | [[Sparx]] Ltd | [[Spink Health]] | [[Telegraph Media Group]] | [[TENS]] | [[The Equity Release Council]] | [[The Gipsy Moth Trust]] | [[TimeWarner UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]] | [[UK TV]] Ltd | [[Urology Trade Association]] | [[Trust & ERIC]] | [[Virgin Care]] | [[Vitra AG]] <ref name="Dec14"/>
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| Assura Group PLC
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| British Gurkha
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====September 2014-November 2014====
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Welfare Society
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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"/>
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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 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]] | [[The Communication Trust|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]] | [[The LIFT Council|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]] | [[The National Obestiy Forum|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]] | [[The UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups|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]]<ref name="June"/>
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Health Choice
 
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| EAS UK Ltd (Sports
 
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Nutrition) for Abbott
 
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Laboratories
 
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| The Field Studies
 
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Council
 
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| Green2Go Ltd
 
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| The Health Food
 
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Manufacturers’
 
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Association
 
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(www.hfma.co.uk)
 
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| Healthnotes Inc
 
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| The European Specialist Sports Nutrition
 
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Alliance (Supported by Garnell
 
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Corporation Ltd, Weider Publishing Ltd,
 
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CLF Distribution, Maximuscle Ltd,
 
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Twinlab Corporation, Tropicana Health
 
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and Fitness Ltd, The Health Food
 
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Manufacturers’ Association, Abbott
 
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Logistics (EAS), Holland and Barrett,
 
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Reflex Nutrition, CNP Professional Ltd,
 
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Carbery, Weider Germany Gmbh, Natrol
 
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UK Ltd, USN UK Ltd, US Nutrition Ltd,
 
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Volac, Myprotein.co.uk, Sci-MX Nutrition
 
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Ltd and the European Health Product
 
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Manufacturers’ Association)
 
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| The LIFT Council, formerly LIFT LOBI
 
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(Local Improvement Finance Trust:
 
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Liaison Organisation for Business
 
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Investors) www.liftlobi.co.uk &
 
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www.liftcouncil.org.uk (supported by
 
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Accent Partnerships, Amber
 
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Infrastructure, Community Solutions for
 
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Primary Care, Eric Wright Group,
 
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Guildhouse Investment Management,
 
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Infracare Partnering, Assura Group,
 
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Sapphire Primary Care Developments,
 
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| Campaign Against Unfair
 
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and Illegal Competition
 
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from the Channel Islands
 
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(Health Food
 
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Manufacturers’ Association
 
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and others)
 
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| The Communication Trust
 
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(in association with I CAN,
 
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Afasic, The Department for
 
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Children Schools and
 
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Families, British Telecom’s
 
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“BT Better World
 
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Campaign”, and the
 
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Council for Disabled
 
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Children).
 
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| The Urology Trade
 
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Association (including
 
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Jade-Euro Med, Coloplast
 
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Ltd, Bard Ltd, Astra Tech
 
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Ltd, Rochester Medical Ltd,
 
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Manfred Sauer, Hunter
 
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Urology Ltd, Unomedical
 
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Ltd/Convatec, Great Bear
 
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Healthcare Ltd, LINC
 
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Medical Systems, CliniMed
 
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| Holland and Barrett
 
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Group
 
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| I CAN
 
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| Lhoist UK
 
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| [[LighterLife]]
 
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| Maximuscle Ltd
 
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| Mentoring and
 
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Befriending
 
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Foundation
 
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| National Aids Trust
 
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| REG Bio Power Ltd
 
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(Living Fuels)
 
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| Registration Council
 
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for Clinical
 
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Physiologists
 
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| Rochester Bridge
 
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Trust
 
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| Swimming
 
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Teachers
 
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Association
 
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| Systagenix Wound
 
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Management
 
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| UK Sustainable
 
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Biodiesel Alliance
 
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(with Convert 2
 
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Green, Green2Go
 
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Solutions)
 
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| The [[UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups]] (supported
 
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Sewell Group, Primary Plus, the Fulcrum
 
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Try).
 
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Hollister Ltd)
 
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| Urology Products User
 
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Group Coalition (funded by
 
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Association and including
 
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Spinal Injuries Association,
 
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Bladder & Bowel
 
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Foundation, PromoCon,
 
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Association for Spina Bifida
 
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Trust, Urostomy
 
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Association, The Back-Up
 
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Group on Umbilical Cord
 
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Blood and Adult Stem Cells
 
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Nolan Trust)
 
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The Whitehouse Consultancy is a commercial lobbying firm based in London, established in 1997.

It was formerly known as Good News Communications Limited. The name was changed to Whitehouse on 4 January 2002.[1]

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

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]

Lobbying for corporate education industry

Whitehouse says it has 'extensive experience' of working in the field of education and provides support to a large number of organisations including: children’s charities, education providers, representative groups and multi-academy trusts. It says it provides a range of advice on schools policy, funding, and market access, among other things. It says:

'With significant reform under-way in UK education and children’s services policy our clients need to understand the changes that are being developed, develop considered and appropriate responses and inform and interact with key policy makers and commissioners'.[13]

Its listed lobbying clients in 2015 include:

It also lobbies for clients that are pushing for reform of education systems that benefit corporate interests. In 2015 these include:

People

APPC UK

December 2015-February 2016

Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Declan Mullaney | Helen Munro | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | Frances Powrie | John Punter | Mayar Raouf | Benjamin Rochelle | Chris Rogers | Aidan Rylatt | Rhiannon Sanders | Guillermo Serrano | Jack Taylor | Carl Thomson | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk [21]

September 2015-November 2015

Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Sofie Hooper | Declan Mullaney | Helen Munro | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | Frances Powrie | John Punter | Mayar Raouf | Benjamin Rochelle | Chris Rogers | Aidan Rylatt | Rhiannon Sanders | Guillermo Serrano | Peter Shand | Jack Taylor | Carl Thomson | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk | [22]

June 2015-August 2015

Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Alice Campbell-Cree | Oliver Cardinali | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Sofie Hooper | Declan Mullaney | Helen Munro | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | Frances Powrie | John Punter | Mayar Raouf | Leonie Rischter | Benjamin Rochelle | Chris Rogers | Rhiannon Sanders | Guillermo Serrano | Peter Shand | Jack Taylor | Carl Thomson | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk [23]

March 2015-May 2015

Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Alice Campbell-Cree | Oliver Cardinali | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Sofie Hooper | Declan Mullaney | Helen Munro | Julia Ogiehor | Elias Papadopoulos | Frances Powrie | Mayar Raouf | Benjamin Rochelle | Chris Rogers | Guillermo Serrano | Peter Shand | Carl Thomson | Chris Whitehouse | Katarzyna Wilk [24]

December 2014-February 2015

Rowan Allport | Sam Blainey | Joanna Camadoo | Alice Campbell-Cree | Oliver Cardinali | Emma Carr | Ben Chiu | Robert Ede | Sofie Hooper | 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 [25]

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[26]

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[27]

Former People

Clients

Registrar of consultant lobbyists

The register of consultant lobbyists documents those clients on behalf of whom the Whitehouse Consultancy has lobbied government ministers and the firm's listings since 2015 are as follows:

April - June 2016

All Party Parliamentary Media Group | Caritas Anchor House | Defence Police Federation | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | Equity Release Council | Hoolan Energy | IMH Events | Low Carbon | Paediatric Continence Forum | REG Bio-Power [32]

January - March 2016

All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | JanUary | Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust | Low Carbon | National Association of Independent Schools & Non-Maintained Special Schools (NASS) | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists [33]

October - December 2015

All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Andromeda Capital | Caritas Anchor House | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | Google | JanUary | LIFT Council | Low Carbon

July - September 2015

All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Caritas Anchor House | Defence Police Federation | London Leadership Strategy | Low Carbon | Musical Futures | Olleco | Vitra

April - June 2015

All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Consumers for Health Choice | Defence Police Federation | Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust | Low Carbon | Maximus | Olleco

January - March 2015

Action Cerebral Palsy | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Andromeda Capital | Association of Educational Psychologists | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust | Low Carbon | National Obesity Awareness Week | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists [34]

APPC lobbying register

December 2015-February 2016

Action Cerebral Palsy | Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Asia TV Assura Group | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Britvic | Cambridge Weight Plan | Camelot | Caritas Anchor House | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | CLL Support Association | Communication Trust, The | Consumers for Health Choice | Cool Milk | Defence Police Federation | Enterprise Rent-a-Car | European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance | Global Group | Google | Health Management Ltd | JanUary | Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | LIFT Council, The | Lighterlife | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | Musical Futures | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools)| National Obesity Forum, The | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | Nur Energie | Paediatric Continence Forum | Prior's Court Foundation | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sparx Ltd | Telegraph Media Group | The Equity Release Council | TimeWarner | UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups, The | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition | Vitra AG | World DAB [21]

September 2015-November 2015

Action Cerebral Palsy | Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Britvic | Cambridge Weight Plan | Camelot | Caritas Anchor House | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | The Communication Trust | Consumers for Health Choice | Cool Milk | Defence Police Federation | Enterprise Rent-a-Car | European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance | Global Group | Google | Health Management Ltd | JanUary | Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | The LIFT Council | Lighterlife | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | Musical Futures | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools) | The National Obesity Forum | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | Olleco | Paediatric Continence Forum | Prior's Court Foundation | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sparx Ltd| Telegraph Media Group | The Equity Release Council | TimeWarner UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition | Trust & ERIC | Virgin Care | Vitra AG | World DAB [22]

June 2015-August 2015

Action Cerebral Palsy | Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Britvic | Cambridge Weight Plan | Caritas Anchor House | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | Coloplast Ltd | The Communication Trust | Consumers for Health Choice | Cool Milk | Defence Police Federation | Dymatize Enterprises LLC | Dyslexia SpLD Trust | Enterprise Rent-a-Car | European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance | Global Group | Google | Health Management Ltd | IdeasTap | Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | The LIFT Council |Lighterlife | London Leadership Strategy | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | Musical Futures | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools) | National Obesity Awareness Week 2015 | The National Obesity Forum | No To Retro Tax | Olleco | Paediatric Continence Forum | PerDM Services Ltd | Prior's Court Foundation | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sparx Ltd | Telegraph Media Group | The Equity Release Council | The Gipsy Moth Trust | TimeWarner | UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition | Trust & ERIC | Virgin Care | Vitra AG | World DMB [23]

March 2015-May 2015

Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom & Belief | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult and Childhood Obesity | All-Party Parliamentary Media Group | Alliance for HMRC Accountability Alliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | Bedouin | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Britvic | Business & Commercial Finance Club | Cambridge Weight Plan | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | Coloplast Ltd | The Communication Trust |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 | Global Group Health Management Ltd | IdeasTap | Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | Kimberly-Clark Professional | The LIFT Council | Lighterlife | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools) | National Hairdressers Federation | National Obesity Awareness Week 2015 | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | No To Retro Tax | Olleco | OneE Group | Paediatric Continence Forum | Peak Performance | PerDM Services Ltd | Prior's Court Foundation Registration | Council for Clinical Physiologists | School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sensium Healthcare Ltd | SITA UK | Sparx Ltd | Spink Health | Telegraph Media Group | TENS | The Equity Release Council | The Gipsy Moth Trust | TimeWarner | UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Urology User Group Coalition |Trust & ERIC | Vitra AG | World DMB [24]

December 2014-February 2015

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 Accountability Alliance for Patient Safety | Andromeda Capital | Arqiva | Arthritis Care | Association of Educational Psychologists | Assura Group | BBC | Bedouin | BeeHealth Ltd | Bright Tribe | British Telecommunications | Business & Commercial Finance Club | Cambridge Weight Plan | Cancer 52 | Chailey Heritage School | Channel 4 Television | Coloplast Ltd | Communication Matters | Communication Trust, The | Complete Childcare Group | 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 | Guardian News and Media | Health Management Ltd | Healthnotes | IdeasTap | ITV | Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | Kimberly-Clark Professional | The LIFT Council | Lighterlife | Low Carbon Ltd | Manfred Sauer | Manumixx | Maximus Employment and Training Ltd | NASS (National Association of Independent Schools and NonMaintained Special Schools) | National Hairdressers Federation | National Obesity Awareness Week 2015 | NewsUK | NHS Partners Network | No To Retro Tax | Olleco | OneE Group | Paediatric Continence Forum | Peak Performance | PerDM Services Ltd | Prior's Court Foundation | REG Windpower | Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists | Right to Life Charitable Trust | RocketMill School and Nursery Milk Alliance | Sensium Healthcare Ltd | SITA UK | Sparx Ltd | Spink Health | Telegraph Media Group | TENS | The Equity Release Council | The Gipsy Moth Trust | TimeWarner UK and EU Very Low Calorie Diet Industry Groups | UK TV Ltd | Urology Trade Association | Trust & ERIC | Virgin Care | Vitra AG [25]

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[26]

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[27]

2010

|Slimming World |Westminster Forum Projects |The British Health Care Association [35]

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

Notes

  1. ↑ http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/9cad5b826cc1f54f6e61174774a9322a/compdetails accessed 1 December 2007
  2. ↑ About us accessed 1 December 2007
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ David Singleton, "Agencies voice concern over APPC-only contracts", PR Week UK, 12.06.08, accessed 10.09.10
  5. ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/aboutus.aspx#anna accessed 1 December 2007
  6. ↑ http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/nutrition-health-claims-foods/article-133154 accessed 1 December 2007
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ Whitehouse Consulting HFMA Case study, Accessed 1 December 2007
  9. ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/casestudies/vitabiotics.aspx accessed 1 December 2007
  10. ↑ http://www.whitehouseconsulting.co.uk/casestudies/cambridgehwp.aspx accessed 1 December
  11. ↑ See The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009, Powerbase
  12. ↑ 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
  13. ↑ Education services, Whitehouse Consultancy website, accessed August 2015
  14. ↑ Christopher Whitehouse Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  15. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/constituency/959/glasgow-east Guardian, accessed 26 January 2015
  16. ↑ Carl Thomson Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  17. ↑ David Singleton] Whitehouse Consultancy, accessed 26 January 2015
  18. ↑ Frances Powrie Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  19. ↑ Sam Blainey Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  20. ↑ Guillermo Serrano] Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Dec-Feb16, APPC, accessed 27 April 2016 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Dec15" defined multiple times with different content
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Sep-Nov15, APPC, accessed 27 April 2016
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Jun-Aug15, APPC, accessed 27 April 2016
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Mar-May15, APPC, accessed 27 April 2016
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Whitehouse Consultancy staff list, Dec-Feb15, APPC, accessed 27 April 2016
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 26 January 2015
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 17 October 2014
  28. ↑ David Hare Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  29. ↑ Richard Robinson Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  30. ↑ Paula Pohja-Hutchinson Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  31. ↑ Lucy Craig Linkedin, accessed 26 January 2015
  32. ↑ 'The Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2016', Register of consultant lobbyists, accessed 25 July 2016
  33. ↑ Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2016, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 3 May 2016
  34. ↑ Whitehouse Consultancy profile 2015, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 9 February 2016
  35. ↑ Whitehouse Consultancy Current and former clients include:, accessed 23 December, 2010

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