June 11, 2025
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Discover Open Access, the newly updated tool from Transparency International which makes lobbying data in the UK more accessible to the public.
The update includes two new features: Scottish lobbying data has been added and, with the help of AI, lobbying meetings are now split into five thematic categories, Climate, Defence, Health, Housing and Finance.
Within one of these thematic areas, climate, analysis shows patterns of lobbying by fossil fuel companies and their various lobbying tactics. Transparency International used the tool to identify patterns of influence, and hope that this work will inspire others such as journalists and civil society organisations working in one of the other four thematic areas to also take up a similar analysis.
Also learn how the tool has been used in the past to submit FOI requests, with examples of where this has been used effectively to create news stories and research.
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Open Access https://openaccess.transparency.org.uk/