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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
David Lynch

Government ‘has more to do’ to ensure transparency among officials – watchdog

New transparency guidance was published in June 2022 (Aaron Chown/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government must do more to ensure public officials are transparent about conflicts of interest or risk “undermining” the view they are objective, ministers have been warned.

Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) has found in a survey that only 40% of Government departments, agencies and other public bodies require all their staff to declare interests annually.

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