WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), commended the parliament of the United Kingdom for introduction of an Early Day Motion which urges the United Kingdom to consider legislation similar to the Energy Security Through Transparency Act (S.1700).

PWYP submission to the UK Parliament’s Trade and Industry Select Committee Inquiry into the Export Credits Guarantee Department.

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Letter addressed to UK MPs regarding the Private Members’ Ballot on the Corporate Responsibility Bill

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“The launch of the EITI, led by the British Government is a landmark approach in encouraging the Governments and Companies to maximize transparency. If the Angolan Government adopted the EITI it would greatly enhance public oversight over the State funds”

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“The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition of over 130 NGOs from 35 countries welcomes the leadership of the UK Government and the Department For International Development in launching the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Financial transparency is a necessary condition for good governance of mineral revenues for successful growth and poverty reduction in many of the world’s poorest countries…”

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Public declaration issued by PWYP at the first international meeting of EITI stakeholders in London, UK.

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Sir, The Prime Minister’s leadership of a worldwide initiative to improve transparency of revenue payments by oil, gas and mining companies to governments is to be welcomed. The government is right to recognise that accountability for revenue flows is central to poverty reduction in resource rich developing countries. CAFOD, as a member of the Publish What You Pay coalition, is very pleased to be a signatory to the WSSD Joint Statement on Transparency of Payments Initiative for the Extractives Industry.

Submission to the Financial Services Authority’s Review of the Listing Regime (United Kingdom)

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In the 2008 Report on Revenue Transparency of Oil and Gas Companies, Transparency International (TI) evaluates 42 leading oil and gas companies on their current policies, management systems and performance in areas relevant to revenue transparency in their upstream operations.

Speech given by the then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, at the ‘Financing sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and the Private Sector: ‘Finding Common Ground on the Ground’ conference, Chatham House, London.