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==The Reality==
:The participating corporate lobbyists are extremely positive about the SPBE. ‘An invaluable insight’ says The Saltire lobbyist; ‘fascinating and valuable’ echoes the man from BP. Nuclear firm British Energy, which has just received a £650 million subsidy, courtesy of the taxpayer, says on its website that the Exchange ‘provides great opportunities for Scottish business’. Indeed. However, it is only supposed to allow MSPs to educate themselves about business, rather than provide ‘value’ and ‘opportunities’ to big business.
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:The participating corporate lobbyists are extremely positive about the SPBE. ‘An invaluable insight’ says The Saltire lobbyist; ‘fascinating and valuable’ echoes the man from BP. Nuclear firm British Energy, which has just received a £650 million subsidy, courtesy of the taxpayer, says on its website that the Exchange ‘provides great opportunities for Scottish business’. Indeed. However, it is only supposed to allow MSPs to educate themselves about business, rather than provide ‘value’ and ‘opportunities’ to big business.[http://spinwatch.scswebdesign.co.uk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=304]
  
 
This organisation has institutionalised corporate links with the Scottish parliament.  Their are 44 MSPs in contact: 25 involved in programmes, 6 at planning stage and 8 showing general interest.  Apparently they see no conflict of interest with this contact.  As to what the nature of the specific programmes are there are no details in the  SPBE website [2] (http://www.spbe.org.uk/)]
 
This organisation has institutionalised corporate links with the Scottish parliament.  Their are 44 MSPs in contact: 25 involved in programmes, 6 at planning stage and 8 showing general interest.  Apparently they see no conflict of interest with this contact.  As to what the nature of the specific programmes are there are no details in the  SPBE website [2] (http://www.spbe.org.uk/)]

Revision as of 10:00, 23 November 2005

SPBE claims

Members sign up to, and programmes are planned and delivered, under certain key principles


*Non-lobbying and non-partisan

*Mutual trust - access to learning with respect for highly sensitive information (commercial/political)

*Transparent and open

*Responsive to the interests of MSPs Policies safeguarding these principles include:

*letter of undertaking from participants and hosts respectively, relating to placement programmes

*acknowledging, where appropriate, specific programme topics subject to commercial confidentiality

*publication by The Exchange of programme costs

*guidelines to MSPs from Clerk to Standards Committee on registration of interests

*surveys of MSPs' interests and circulating of programme ideas for MSPs' responses

Source: [1]

The Reality

The participating corporate lobbyists are extremely positive about the SPBE. ‘An invaluable insight’ says The Saltire lobbyist; ‘fascinating and valuable’ echoes the man from BP. Nuclear firm British Energy, which has just received a £650 million subsidy, courtesy of the taxpayer, says on its website that the Exchange ‘provides great opportunities for Scottish business’. Indeed. However, it is only supposed to allow MSPs to educate themselves about business, rather than provide ‘value’ and ‘opportunities’ to big business.[2]

This organisation has institutionalised corporate links with the Scottish parliament. Their are 44 MSPs in contact: 25 involved in programmes, 6 at planning stage and 8 showing general interest. Apparently they see no conflict of interest with this contact. As to what the nature of the specific programmes are there are no details in the SPBE website [2] (http://www.spbe.org.uk/)]

Members

Shepherd & Wedderburn W.S., Pfizer Ltd,

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External links

SPBE website [3]]