Lobbying & Interest Groups in the Scottish Capital
Scroll over the map to find information on the interest groups that lobby the Scottish Parliament.
Commercial versus
Non-Commercial Interests
60% of interest groups that lobby the Scottish Parliament represent commercial interests.
Breakdown by
Group Type
Companies are the most prevalent group type
Lobbying by Party
The figure below shows how often different types of groups have lobbied the Scottish Parliament by Party
The Scottish National Party is lobbied more frequently than any other party ... and mainly by Non-commercial interest groups
Lobbying Members of the Scottish Parliament
Explore the table below to see which Members of the Scottish Parliament get lobbied the most and by which types of interest groups
Data & Methods
Data were sourced from the Scottish Parliament's Lobby Register of registrants and information returns. To ensure clarity and comparability, we adopted the coding categories for group types as established by the European Union's Transparency Register coding categories.
Please cite as: Chalmers, Adam William, Thomas Aarheim, Stella Schmidt-Ott, & Adith Srinivasan. (2024). "Lobbying & Interest Groups in the Scottish Capital", University of Edinburgh.
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