Written evidence from Centre for Corporate Reputation Research Fellow Liz David-Barrett has been cited in Foreign Affairs Select Committee Eighth Report of Session 2010-11, The FCO’s Human Rights Work 2010-11 (HC 964).

Liz argues “that the UK Bribery Act exacerbates a tension between the FCO's human rights work and the government's emphasis on promoting UK economic and commercial interests in foreign policy. One of the aims of anti-bribery laws is to reduce the supply of bribes in developing countries, helping those countries to combat corruption and, in doing so, to protect human rights and reduce poverty. However, there is evidence from academic research that the passage of anti-bribery laws can mean that companies under the jurisdiction of those laws simply stop doing business in corruption-prone countries.... This raises a concern that the "gap" is then filled by investors from other countries who are happy to pay bribes in order to win business.”

Read Liz’s evidence here

Read the Foreign Affairs Committee - Eighth Report
The FCO's Human Rights Work 2010-11