Letter on the Anti-Corruption Strategy

In October 2020, the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition wrote to James Brokenshire MP, the Minister of State for Security, to express the importance of ensuring that the Government delivers on all aspects of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and properly resources this work.

We recommended that the Government:

• Maintains the global fight against corruption as a key national security and foreign policy aim in the Integrated Review.

• Develops a far more ambitious programme for addressing corruption at home, including assigning dedicated resource to its enforcement, ensuring full transparency and the resumption of competitive processes in procurement as soon as possible, and committing to a strengthening of the UK’s institutions.

• Commits ongoing and adequate resource to maintain the current anti-corruption capabilities in the UK, and additional resource to build these capabilities further.

• Commits to finding the legislative time at the earliest possible moment to introduce much delayed flagship reforms including strengthening Companies House powers, introducing the property register and reforming corporate liability laws.