Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists: Costs
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to pages 131–132 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what the annual cost is of operating the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists; whether registration fee income was netted off against those costs; and what net (a) surplus and (b) deficit was recorded in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Chris Ward
In each of the last three years - two of which were under the last government - the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists has recorded a consistent net deficit as shown below:
| 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
| £’000 | £’000 | £’000 |
Annual cost of operating the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists | 321 | 324 | 353 |
Registration Fee income was netted off against those costs | -212 | -217 | -246 |
Net Deficit/Cost | 109 | 107 | 107 |
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