Following last month’s sentencing of commodities giant Glencore for bribery, Spotlight on Corruption and a range of international and African civil society organisations have written to Justice Secretary Dominic Raab...
Tomorrow, the House of Lords will debate the National Security Bill and has an opportunity to make an important intervention on tackling dubious money in UK politics. Both the current...
Spotlight on Corruption has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him to fulfil his commitment to appoint an independent adviser on ministerial interests. The letter, which was also published...
Today, veteran economic crime campaigner Margaret Hodge MP put forward some bold and crucial amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill currently going through Parliament to dramatically improve...
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.
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.
