This is just to say there are loopholes in the Lobbying Act. You can go out and do unpaid lobbying. There is no five-year ban on that. There's not even a one-day ban on that. There are some loopholes in the definition of lobbying that undermine the five-year ban. But it shouldn't have been imposed on every MP in 2010 as it was. It should be a sliding scale, and that change in regulation in 2010 made all MPs covered by this five-year cooling-off period. It shouldn't be five years for someone who is a backbench MP; it should be a shorter period.
On February 6th, 2013. See this statement in context.