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Ethics and Integrity Commission (formerly the Committee on Standards in Public Life)

Reports and recommendations from the Ethics and Integrity Commission and, before 13 October 2025, the Committee on Standards in Public Life, on ethics, lobbying, party finance and public appointments.

24 reports with recommendations 783 recommendations 23 other publications and 37 minutes, registers and meeting lists held as documents

Ethics and Integrity Commission library ↗ Committee on Standards in Public Life on GOV.UK ↗

13 October 2025: one body, new name. The Ethics and Integrity Commission replaced the Committee on Standards in Public Life on 13 October 2025, when the Prime Minister issued its terms of reference. The Commission describes itself as established by strengthening and reforming the Committee, and its implementation plan sets out an 18 to 24 month transition. Its remit widens to an annual report to the Prime Minister on the health of standards in public life and advice to public authorities on codes of conduct. It remains an advisory body that reports to the Prime Minister and is not a regulator. Reports dated before 13 October 2025 are the Committee's; later reports are the Commission's. This source holds both. EIC: our remit ↗ · GOV.UK: Ethics and Integrity Commission ↗

Reports with recommendations 24 records

Lobbying, Business Appointment Rules and Disclosure

Ethics and Integrity CommissionJul 202637 recommendations

Upholding Standards in Public Life

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 202134 recommendations11 accepted9 implemented

Regulating Election Finance: report

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJul 202147 recommendations

Artificial Intelligence and Public Standards: report

Committee on Standards in Public LifeFeb 202015 recommendations4 accepted

Local government ethical standards: report

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJan 201926 recommendations1 accepted

MPs' outside interests

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJul 20189 recommendations

The Continuing Importance of Ethical Standards for Public Service Providers

Committee on Standards in Public LifeMay 201814 recommendations

Intimidation in Public Life: A Review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life

Committee on Standards in Public LifeMar 201833 recommendations

Striking the Balance: Upholding the Seven Principles of Public Life in Regulation

Committee on Standards in Public LifeSep 20164 recommendations

Tone from the top - leadership, ethics and accountability in policing

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJun 201520 recommendations

Ethical standards for providers of public services

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJun 20143 recommendations

Strengthening Transparency Around Lobbying

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 201315 recommendations

Political Party Finance: ending the big donor culture

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 201115 recommendations

MPs' Expenses and Allowances: Supporting Parliament, safeguarding the taxpayer

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 200960 recommendations

Review of the Electoral Commission

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJan 200747 recommendations

Getting the balance right: Implementing standards of conduct in public life

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJan 200538 recommendations

Defining the boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, Special Advisers and the permanent Civil Service

Committee on Standards in Public LifeApr 200334 recommendations

Standards of Conduct in the House of Commons

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 200227 recommendations

Standards of Conduct in the House of Lords

Committee on Standards in Public LifeNov 200023 recommendations

Reinforcing Standards

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJan 200038 recommendations

The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom

Committee on Standards in Public LifeOct 1998100 recommendations

Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotland and Wales

Committee on Standards in Public LifeJul 199739 recommendations

Local Public Spending Bodies

Committee on Standards in Public LifeMay 199650 recommendations

MPs, Ministers and Civil Servants, Executive Quangos

Committee on Standards in Public LifeMay 199555 recommendations

Commission publications 23 records

Listed from the Commission's own library, with a link to the original. A publication is held as a document; recommendations are copied word for word only where a report states them.

Annual Letter to the Prime Minister 2026 – Press Notice ↗

Annual Letter to the Prime Minister16 Oct 2026

Annual Letter to the Prime Minister 2026 ↗

Annual Letter to the Prime Minister13 Oct 2026 No formal recommendations

The Chair's annual letter to the Prime Minister. It gives advice in letter form but has no numbered recommendations.

Map of the Standards Landscape ↗

Academic papers and research9 Sep 2026 No formal recommendations

A single-page diagram of the standards landscape. It states no recommendations.

Mapping UK Standards in Public Life ↗

Academic papers and research7 Sep 2026 No formal recommendations

The PDF is dated 13 April 2026; the EIC library lists it on 7 September 2026.

Research report commissioned by the EIC from two external authors. It maps the standards institutions as at December 2025 and states no recommendations.