The U.K Public Administration Committee, which has launched an investigation [3] into the lobbying industry, will visit Washington D.C. in October to research the U.S. system for regulating lobbying [4]. The vice-chairman of the PR company Edelman [5] Europe, Michael Burrell [6], is wary of the U.K. government emulating the U.S. regulatory standards. "I think that our self-regulatory system works remarkably well," he told PR Week. The U.K. inquiry is seeking [7] to investigate "the transparency of the lobbying industry, the effectiveness of recent attempts at self-regulation, and whether the rules for those in Parliament and government should be changed."