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41% of the respondents in a 2006 survey of corruption within the UK construction industry said they had been offered a bribe on at least one occasion. See CIOB Survey, www.ciob.org..uk/filegrab/CIOBCorruption.pdf?ref=283

According to TI's 2006 Global Corruption Barometer Report, UK respondents perceived political parties to be the sector (out of a total of 14) to be most affected by corruption. See TI Global Corruption Barometer, http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/gcb/2006

According to a Control Risks/Simmons & Simmons 2006 survey of international business attitudes to corruption, a quarter of UK-based international companies said they had lost business to corrupt competitors in the last 5 years. See Survey, http://www.crg.com/PDF/corruption_survey_2006_V3.pdf

Transparency International's working paper on "Addressing corruption and building integrity in defence establishments" was prepared by the TI(UK) Defence Against Corruption team and coordinated by TI Secretariat's Policy and Research Department. It is for all those who want to build the integrity of a country's defence establishment: politicians and ministerial leaders, military officers, defence company officials and civil society