The whole thing is a racket and the corporations happily join in to make a quick buck
Which for private sector shit is... whatever. They have deep pockets, an army of lawyers on retainer, and can go take some politicians out for fancy weekend breaks if things get too hot for them.
Publicly funded shit opening itself up to employment tribunal lawsuits because privately controlled lobbyists are advising
what they want not
what is as legal advice and making bank doing so just ends up costing the tax payer twice over.
I don't blame stonewall who get to keep their effective lobbyist cake and get to eat it too by having a circular system where they can ontinue to extract money to support their lobbying indefinitely, but I sure as shit don't blame public sector institutions who are
supposed to be politically neutral because the entire fucking country pays for them and the country runs the entire gamut politically to realise this is not the great fucking deal someone in HR who couldn't be arsed to do their homework sold it as when asking if they could just outsource that shit.