Extent of Government Funded Lobbying Revealed

Iain Dales's blog today gives a link to a pdf from the TaxPayers Alliance which highlights the extent of government funded lobbying.

Environmental lobbying groups including the Sustainable Development Commission, and Friends of the Earth among others, received over £6.7 million.... Go to Page 30 of the pdf to read more. How much of this money that comes from the taxpayer is used to lobby in favour of wind power?

I would like to point out to anyone who does not know this that Country Guardian and Artists against Wind Farms are completely independent... we campaign at our own expense.