{"id":3595,"date":"2018-05-25T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:08","slug":"is-there-corruption-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/05\/25\/is-there-corruption-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there corruption in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes according to reports and evidence given to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/foreign-affairs-committee\/inquiries1\/parliament-2017\/inquiry7\/\">foreign Affairs committee<\/a> which this week published a review of Russian influence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/388894\/UKantiCorruptionPlan.pdf\">UK government has an anti-corruption plan\u00a0<\/a>with <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/522802\/6.1689_Progress_Update_on_the_UK_Anti-Corruption_Plan_v11_WEB.PDF\">updates on progress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other useful sources on this are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/feature\/corruption_perceptions_index_2017\">Transparency International Corruption Index<\/a> which measures citizens perception of how corrupt their country is.\u00a0 See how the UK ranks on a worldwide scale.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org.uk\/our-work\/uk-corruption\">Transparency UK<\/a> has produced some reports on this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cw-uk.org\/\">Corruption Watch UK<\/a> is an NGO which monitors corruption and\u00a0 bribery. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cw-uk.org\/projects-and-publications\">website has a collection of publications and projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/treaties\/CAC\/\">worldwide scale see the UN convention against corruption website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes according to reports and evidence given to the foreign Affairs committee which this week published a review of Russian influence. The UK government has an anti-corruption plan\u00a0with updates on progress Other useful sources on this are: Transparency International Corruption Index which measures citizens perception of how corrupt their country is.\u00a0 See how the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[114,93],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}