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?
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...
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...
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.
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.
We are in an era of profound disillusionment in politics. Recent polling by More in Common shows that 87% of Britons have little or no trust in politicians, with public...
The UK Home Office is seeking to address problems relating to information sharing between and within the public and private sectors to stop financial crime. Through a call for evidence that closed in May 2026, Spotlight on Corruption submitted evidence drawn from our research and unique court monitoring programme on how information could be shared more effectively to tackle economic crime.
A damning report released today by the Public Accounts Committee reveals the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) alarming failures to protect taxpayer money from economic crime and corruption.
