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

Fixing Companies House’s identity crisis demands strong enforcement

• Michael Griffiths

Companies House’s long overdue crackdown on individuals that have failed to verify their identities has begun, with a flurry of warning letters (equivalent to almost one-fifth of all companies registered), but strong enforcement must follow to remove the UK’s corporate registry from kleptocrats’ and fraudsters’ toolkits.

Corruption & economic crime prosecutions on the rise but white-collar criminals let off the hook

• James Bolton-Jones

New data on key corruption and economic crime offences in Spotlight’s enforcement tracker has revealed big increases in prosecutions across the board in 2024-25. But looking beyond the headline numbers, what story does this data really tell us about the state of anti-corruption enforcement in England and Wales?

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.