How Corrupt is UK Construction?
51% of UK construction professionals felt that
corruption is commonplace within the UK construction
industry according to a survey by the Chartered
Institute of Building (CIOB).
The survey asked over 1400 construction professionals
what type of corrupt practice was most commonly found,
and examined attitudes of how corrupt they deemed a
variety of practices to be. The study also looked at the
areas in which respondents felt that corrupt practice
was most likely to occur.
82% of respondent’s were managers or directors; 57%
worked in large companies, 20% were employed in medium
sized firms and 23% in small organisations.
76% of respondent’s regarded the employment of illegal
workers as widespread in UK construction; 60% felt that
fraud within the industry was prevalent and 41% had been
personally offered a bribe.
Michael Brown CIOB deputy chief executive said, “People
define corruption in different ways. What is corrupt to
one person might be common practice or just ‘how it’s
always been done’ to another. We wanted our research to
take the temperature of UK construction and find out
what the perception is from those that work within it
and its scale.
“Whilst the majority of respondents recognised corrupt
practices for what they were, there was a concerning
level of people who thought, for example, that producing
a fraudulent invoice was not corrupt or that using
bribery to obtain a contract was also not a particularly
corrupt practice. We clearly have some way to go as an
industry to make ethical construction the only
construction.”
The World Bank has estimated the cost of corruption to
the global economy at US$1.5 trillion a year. More
specifically corruption in the Great British
construction industry could cost anywhere up to £3
billion a year. The total cost of corruption to the
respondent’s companies was estimated at £35 million per
year.
A full copy of the report is available at
http://www.ciob.org.uk/resources/research
Email:
stownsend@ciob.org.uk
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