Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Government Affairs Group of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

The Government Affairs Group is a specialist sectoral group of the CIPR.  It aims to represent the membership of the group, to facilitate networking and to provide a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and best practice.

We hope that you find the content of this website both useful and informative. If you have any comments on it please feel free to contact the webmaster Jonathan French. If you have any queries about CIPR GAG feel free to contact either the Secretary, Laura Webb, or myself. Enquiries about membership or becoming a Friend of GAG should be directed to George Crozier.

Keith Johnston
Chairman 

The GAG AGM takes place on Tuesday 23 March, and we're delighted to announce that the guest speaker is the influential political blogger Paul Staines, better known as Guido Fawkes.

The Government has responded to the PASC report on lobbying, paving the way for a register of lobbyists and a UK Public Affairs Council, which GAG will play a full part in. See the News section of the web site for more information. 

The GAG / Total Politics list of the UK's Top 100 lobbyists has been published. It's on the TP web site here: http://www.totalpolitics.com/magazine_detail.php?id=642. On the same site, GAG Chairman Keith Johnston writes eloquently about the world of lobbying, here: http://www.totalpolitics.com/magazine_detail.php?id=630.

GAG is now on Twitter! To keep up with the latest developments in the public affairs world, plus news about GAG itself, go to www.twitter.com/ciprgag.