Andrew Lansley now advises private health firms. Flickr/NHS Confederation, CC BY 2.0
The social housing estates demolished to make way for luxury apartments. The banks which continue to be slackly regulated despite scandal after scandal costing the taxpayer billions. The cigarettes which remain in sexy, well designed packaging but continue to kill around 100,000 people per year.
Why do these injustices prevail in 2015 Britain? One reason is lack of transparency around government decision making. Transparency matters. This is perhaps stating the obvious. But it’s easy to forget these issues that impact the lives of all of us behind buzzwords like ‘transparency’, ‘open data’ and ‘accountability’. This is why we at Transparency International UK have launched the #TransparencyMatters campaign. This seeks to crowdsource the perspectives of activists, students, journalists and other members of the public, in order to understand why transparency matters to people.
