ANTI-CORRUPTION

  • Set up an Economic Crime Unit to tackle economic crime which costs the UK at least £290bn a year
  • Getting tough on economic crime – e.g the annual £1.27 billion lost to fraud, bribery, and corruption in the NHS, and 25% of public procurement funds lost to corruption each year
  • New Transparency Law for overseas companies ownership of UK property
  • Ban paid lobbying by sitting MPs
  • Introduce a register of Think Tanks and their funders
  • Introduce Ethics in Public Life legislation, to address ‘the revolving doors’ between public officials who move between the public, political and private sectors. Implement a two-year wait for senior staff between working in the government, regulator or public body and taking a job in the private or political sectors.