Fair enough.
Again, there's a little bit of a duelling banjos situation about all of these different levels of lobby bans and cooling-off periods. I think the only cooling-off periods that real statutory authority exists for are the ones for public office holders who leave public office and then return to the private sector. Those are the ones that Parliament contemplated.
It's important to use Parliament as the high-water mark here because Parliament is an actual constitutional actor, and it can deliberate in a way that balances those rights in a very different way than, say, an officer of Parliament. Not withstanding the consultation, when Parliament passes a vote, every one of the people who voted one way or another have to go back to their constituents and defend that action.