Transparency International UK has recently commissioned a major research project into corruption in the UK. We hope this will help us to understand the extent and nature of the problem - where it happens, in what form, and how prevalent it is. This will provide us with a well-informed basis for future policy proposals. We have engaged Professor Michael Macaulay, an anti-corruption expert from the Teesside University Business School, as the project’s Lead Researcher.

                     

The first output of this research is a national opinion survey. This was carried out by Gallup in July 2010 and the results are presented in this short report. It is not our intention to provide detailed interpretation of the data at this stage, as this will be done when, after completing other research and analysis, we launch our full report in summer 2011. However, we are releasing the results of the opinion survey on the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day, as they give a fascinating glimpse of how the citizens of the United Kingdom view corruption in this country.