Spotlight on Corruption shines a light on the UK’s role in corruption at home and abroad.

Civil society recommendations on asset recovery for the Illicit Finance Summit 2026

Asset recovery – the process of tracing, freezing, seizing, managing, preserving, disposing, and returning the proceeds of crime and corruption or compensating victims of crime – lies at the heart…

Exploring options for legislative reform of the UK’s asset recovery regime

On 11 December 2025, Spotlight on Corruption and the UK Home Office co-hosted a workshop to explore options for legislative reforms to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). Held…

Submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry into Modernising Elections, April 2026 

The submission calls for a robust ban on cryptocurrency donations which covers contributions to individual politicians as well as political parties and the emerging risks linked to politically affiliated memecoins.

Lobbying review: an opportunity not to be missed 

• Kamila Kingstone

The government’s lobbying review is a rare chance to fix a transparency regime that has fallen behind international standards. Our submission calls for a comprehensive lobbying register, tougher enforcement, stronger disclosure rules, and reforms to rebuild public trust in decision-making.

Briefing: We need political integrity reform to meet the moment in an age of contempt

We are in an era of profound disillusionment in politics. Recent polling by More in Common shows that 87% of Britons have little or no trust in politicians, with public…

Submission to the Home Office consultation on economic crime information sharing, May 2026

The UK Home Office is seeking to address problems relating to information sharing between and within the public and private sectors to stop financial crime. Through a call for evidence that closed in May 2026, Spotlight on Corruption submitted evidence drawn from our research and unique court monitoring programme on how information could be shared more effectively to tackle economic crime.