APPC

There are 3 distinct professional bodies in the United Kingdom:

PRCA

The Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) promotes all aspects of public relations and internal communications work, helping teams and individuals maximise the value they deliver to clients and organisations.

PRCA exists to raise standards in PR and communications, providing members with industry data, facilitating the sharing of communications best practice and creating networking opportunities.

The Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) supports the general aim of ensuring that lobbying is made as open and transparent as possible. The APPC supports in principle, the introduction of a statutory register, although it is of the view that openness and transparency concerning who is lobbying whom and about what issues could be more easily achieved by other means. This information already exists within the official diaries of Ministers, Civil Servants and Members of Parliament.