While Spotlight welcomes the government’s commitment in today’s statement to Parliament that it will never again have a visa scheme based solely on wealth, we are disappointed that the full...
Between March 2020 and March 2021, the government backed £80 billion in loans to help 1.6 million British businesses survive the pandemic. These loans provided crucial support but were designed...
It has long been known that existing electoral law does not do enough to safeguard UK political parties from foreign influence and dirty money. The 2020 Russia report by the...
Last week’s International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Washington DC was a packed programme of plenary sessions, panel discussions, workshops and film screenings – punctuated by coffee breaks to caffeinate and...
Corruption knows no borders – it is a truly global challenge that calls for a coordinated, cross-border and cross-sectoral response. This recognition brought renewed energy and urgency to discussions at...
Over the next three days, Spotlight on Corruption will be challenging the Information Commissioner’s decision not to release the names of companies who received government-backed loans from the British Business...
Between 28-30 November, the First-tier Tribunal will hear Spotlight on Corruption’s appeal – against the British Business Bank (BBB) and Information Commissioner – calling for the names of companies that received Covid-19 loans to be released.
The urgent need to introduce anti-SLAPP measures, proposed by the UK government in July, has been underscored by the recent announcement that a UK registered company and a Kazakhstan endowment...
Today’s revelations about the £76 million a year lobbying operation by Uber to swing government policies in its favour