sources for our political monitoring
United Kingdom:
- Westminster Parliament
Daily Vote bundle (Notice of Proceedings in Westminster); Commons and Lords Hansard; Parliamentary Channel (on a continuous live feed in all three of our UK offices); Select Committee Press Releases and Enquiries; All-Party Groups and all notices of press conferences
- Government and Opposition
Government announcements through Central Office of Information Press Releases; Release of Parliamentary documents; Ministerial statements and speeches; all new appointments; Government policy and consultation documents; all Party political information and press releases
- Think Tanks and other third parties
Including the LGA, Adam Smith Institute, CBI, IoD, Demos, Enterprise Forum, Fabian Society, Industry Forum, Institute of Economic Affairs, IPPR, Nexus, Social Market Foundation, Consumers’ Association, the Labour Party Business Unit, MORI, youGOV, etc.
- Regulators and Quangos
Including OFT, Competition Commission, FSA, OFTEL, OFGEM, OFSTED, OFWAT, Office of National Statistics etc.
- Media
As well as our dedicated media monitoring service, we routinely undertake daily monitoring of key national print and broadcast media. In addition, we also monitor the European Voice and specialist press including The Economist, The New Statesman, Private Eye, The Spectator and other specialist sector publications of importance to our clients
Europe:
- European Commission
Weekly Commission meetings; Daily statements to the press; DG Press Releases; Commission committees or working groups agendas; Agence Europe and the European Report also provide summaries of key legislative developments
- The Parliament
Plenary Sessions of the Parliament (these are usually 4 days each session, and mostly held in Strasbourg but occasionally in Brussels); all final reports and draft resolutions from the Committees; statements to the press; priorities of the main political parties (Socialist, Christian-Democrat, Greens, etc.); Parliamentary questions; the work of the Conciliation Committee; Parliamentary Committees; cross-party interest groups, delegations, hearings etc.
- Council, European Council and Council Presidency
Agendas and outcomes of Council meetings; agendas and outcomes of all European Council meetings (or Summits); priorities and activities of the Council Presidency (with an eye on the priorities of future Presidency’s over the next two years) etc.
- Court of Justice
Cases referred to the Court of Justice (limited in the case of the Court of First Instance); hearings of the Court; Advocate-Generals’ opinions; final judgements etc.
- other institutions
Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Investment Bank, The European Central Bank, the EU Ombudsman, EU Member States Representations, etc.
- third parties
BEUC (consumer lobby), Greenpeace (and various other Environmental Groups such as EEB), UNICE, ETUC, Eurocommerce, etc.
Scotland:
- Holyrood
Including daily monitoring of proceedings for the day within the Scottish Parliament including Bills before the Parliament; Committee proceedings; output from individual MSP's; the Official Report of the previous day's proceedings; all published consultation papers and press releases; and tabled questions. In addition we monitor the full output of the Scottish Executive and of the Scottish Office in London. Where necessary we provide a weekly report summarising the key developments of the Scottish Political week
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