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.
A series of political scandals in recent years have exposed significant weaknesses in the UK’s system for the regulation of lobbying. The UK’s standards landscape must be brought up to date to ensure that integrity and ethics in government are regulated in a way that befits a modern democracy; strengthening the Lobbying Act is a central plank of that process. Enhancing the UK’s system for lobbying would ensure greater transparency and more equal access to government, with positive consequences for public decision-making and the use of public resources.
The last few years have seen intense and growing public debate about how the standards of behaviour by politicians and senior government officials should be regulated in the UK. At...
The proposed regime should not be introduced until BEIS has completed the proposed reforms to Companies House giving the register powers to query, verify and remove inaccurate company data.
