International Anti-Corruption Day - 9 December International Anti-Corruption Day - 9 December

#InternationalAntiCorruptionDay
09 December 2024
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#AntiCorruptionChampion
"Baroness Margaret Hodge announced as UK's new Anti-Corruption Champion as National Crime Agency receives new funding and sanctions imposed on illicit gold trade"
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Intriguing comment from the Foreign Secretary this afternoon. There's been no #AntiCorruptionChampion since John Penrose left the role back when Boris Johnson was still PM. Will we see some movement on this front soon? 🤞

New #AntiCorruptionChampion incoming? At today's Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Sec David Lammy dropped a big hint that we could get an announcement soon. We hope to see a big-hitter in the role with a broad remit to coordinate a major cross-government response to corruption & illicit finance.

There’s certainly no shortage of well-qualified and well-respected Parliamentarians in both houses who would make energetic and effective champions. Time for the government to get serious and get a #AntiCorruptionChampion in place now.

The last two incoming governments in 2010 and 2015 appointed a new #AntiCorruptionChampion within a month of taking office. With two months of the new government on the clock, we hope that this appointment will be given priority. The UK has been without a Champion for over two years now.

As we wrote with our colleagues at @ukaccoalition.bsky.social to the Prime Minister in July, the #AntiCorruptionChampion is a crucial role to oversee a new Anti-Corruption Strategy, and to hold the government’s feet to the fire on delivery.

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Last week Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Parliament that the new government is considering a new #AntiCorruptionChampion alongside a host of other public appointments.
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Will the UK’s new anti-corruption strategy be a paper tiger or slay the dragon? - Spotlight on Cor... At some stage early this year the UK should be launching a new Anti-Corruption Strategy. The last one ended over a year ago in December 2022. The Strategy is

As we highlighted as 2024 kicked into action, a new #AntiCorruptionChampion is critical for overseeing delivery of the government’s much delayed Anti-Corruption Strategy:

The parable of Britain’s ‘anti-corruption champion’ Rishi Sunak's continued failure to appoint an anti-corruption tsar should be a national scandal. Instead it’s ignored and obfuscated.

👏Good to see @petergeoghegan.bsky.social focusing attention back on the UK government’s lamentable failure to appoint an #AntiCorruptionChampion more than 18 months after the last one resigned.