The government unveiled its first ever UK sanctions strategy last week to coincide with the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. There is no doubt that this anniversary...
Spotlight on Corruption and Transparency International UK have produced a joint briefing ahead of a debate in the House of Lords on 11 January 2024 on parliamentary democracy and standards in public life....
This research provides an overview of the rules that the UK’s key allies (the United States, Canada and Australia) have to tackle fraud against the government in their jurisdictions and...
This briefing looks at recent Government measures in relation to electoral integrity, the issues that need to be tackled to ensure the integrity of the next election and at the...
On Tuesday 12 December, the House of Lords debated a statutory instrument (SI) removing the 15-year limit on voting rights for UK citizens living abroad. The government estimates that as...
This week Spotlight on Corruption wrote to the National Crime Agency (NCA) to urge it to take a leading role in coordinating enforcement of the UK’s electoral finance laws –...
Today Nigeria prevailed in its monumental challenge to arbitral awards worth more than $11 billion that were obtained by a small offshore company following a failed gas project in Nigeria....
After reforms to lobbying rules are eventually implemented, there will still be no requirement to disclose non-diarised informal lobbying in departments’ transparency releases, even if it impacts upon or shapes...
