Knowing a cabinet minister worth £113,000 a year Research by the Centre for Economic Performance suggests that there are rich rewards to be had from close acquaintance with senior ministers. The calculation made by Jordi Blanes I Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rose was based on the $177,000 fall in annual income suffered by USlobbyists when the senator they used lost office. "The scale of the business dealings of Adam Werritty, Liam Fox's associate, suggests that the return to cabinet-level access in the UK could also be very high," they wrote in an article for CentrePiece. That said, Werritty's case is unusual because it appears that he was functioning as a lobbyist and as a political adviser at the same time. This would have been difficult to achieve in the more transparent US and Canadian systems. They have called for Britain to follow the US system where every lobbying contract is reported every quarter. Like senators, cabinet ministers have a lot of strategic power in policy-making and they seem to be the main target of lobbying activity in the UK political system. In Britain ministers have to disclose details of meetings with outside organisations, foreign travel, hospitality they have received along with information about gifts they have been given worth more than £140. The Cabinet Office has also produced proposals for a statutory register of lobbyists.