Corruption in the United Kingdom

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Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index scored the United Kingdom at 71 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, the United Kingdom ranked 20th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1] For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among Western European and European Union countries [Note 1] was 90, the average score was 64 and the lowest score was 41. [2] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 8 (ranked 180). [3]

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The United Kingdom currently has numerous laws that punish civil servants for bribery and other forms of corruption, with the Bribery Act 2010 currently the most relevant. [4] There has also been criticism from newspaper columnists. [5] [6] This has largely been because of the UK's fall from the top 10 in the CPI. [7] [8] [9]

The Bribery Act 2010 is currently the most relevant law in the United Kingdom that punishes public and private bribery. The law does not make any distinction in sentencing between those who bribe (or are bribed) in the public or private sector. [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

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References

  1. ↑ "The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is calculated". Transparency.org. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "CPI 2024 for Western Europe & EU: Leaders' hollow efforts cause worsening corruption levels". Transparency.org. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2024: United Kingdom". Transparency.org. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 Country Review Report of the United Kingdom (PDF). United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2013. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Monbiot, George (2020-09-10). "If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  6. ↑ "We need to talk about corruption in the UK". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  7. ↑ Binham, Caroline. "UK drops out of top 10 in global anti-corruption rankings". Financial Times. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  8. ↑ Millard, Rachel (2020-01-23). "UK takes one step down in global corruption rankings". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  9. ↑ Hope, Christopher. "Transparency International's 2009 corruption index: the full ranking of 180 countries". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
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