This Act introduced a requirement for a register of consultant lobbyists in England, and Scotland soon followed suit with the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016, which requires anyone who undertakes face-to-face lobbying of MSPs, Scottish Government Ministers, special advisers or Permanent Secretaries to sign the Scottish lobbying register.

In Wales, the Standards of Conduct Committee looked at lobbying in Wales during 2017 and considered the need for a lobby register for Wales. The committee produced its report in January 2018 and it states that the committee were

'uncertain that the information disclosed through a voluntary Register would answer all the questions that exist around how policies are developed and influenced'.

They added that they were

'currently minded that a statutory route might be necessary to achieve the desired transparency required.'

Unfortunately, despite this, the committee opted to kick the issue into the long grass, and stated that they would wait to see whether the voluntary approach suggested by Public Affairs Cymru increased transparency sufficiently to negate the need for a statutory register.