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Report: Private UK Groups Funding, Drafting Parliamentary Studies

HeadlineJan 13, 2006

This news from Britain — the London Times is reporting powerful business groups are funding and even drafting the reports of supposedly independent British parliamentary groups investigating policies in which they have a commercial interest. Two thirds of the nearly-300 such groups are now assisted by special interest groups, the newspaper said.

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