Violation Tracker UK

NS&I has reportedly wasted £3bn on a digital revamp...but where is the story of the companies paid millions to deliver this project?

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Syngenta fined £400,000 for a dangerous high-pressure steam released

Since its last health and safety conviction in 2011, the Chinese pesticide firm has received 14 improvement notices from the HSE

Clearsprings, Mears, Serco...£15 billion projected spend over ten years by the UK government to these companies for asylum accommodation.

Each of these companies have been sanctioned for housing offences

Ever wondered if your corporate landlord or their agent has faced enforcement action?

You can now check local authority enforcement of houses offences in England and Wales on Violation Tracker UK using advanced search 'housing violation'

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Lloyds Banking Group's Bank of Scotland fined £160k for UK sanctions breaches.

LBG and subsidiaries have been fined total penalties of close to £473m since 2010 for regulatory breaches

A major incident has been declared as South East Water leaves tens of thousands of people without a water supply

In 2023 the Drinking Water Inspectorate warned that SEW's longstanding failures to invest was to blame for repeated incidents - but no enforcement action was taken.

Top 5 companies for total penalties paid in 2025 - Mastercard, £200 million penalty for making goods and services more expensive for consumers (Competition Appeal Tribunal), PPE Medpro, £122 million penalty for selling the government faulty protective equipment (Crown Prosecution Service), Thames Water, £104.5 million penalty for sewage spills and environmental harm (OFWAT), BlueCrest Capital Management £76 million penalty for an investor protection violation (Financial Conduct Authority), Anglian Water, £62.8 million penalty for sewage spills and environmental harm (OFWAT)

The State of UK Regulatory Enforcement in 2025 - Good Jobs First The State of UK Regulatory Enforcement in 2025 - Good Jobs First

🚨Our new analysis reveals that enforcement levels for corporate crime have dropped in 2025🚨

We found drops in enforcement across-
↘️ Labour Market
↘️ Health and Safety
↘️ Fraud
↘️Consumer Protection
↘️ Environment
↘️ Financial

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🚨New data alert! 🚨

We added the top 500 most fined companies from @goodjobsfirst.org's Violations Tracker Global to Wikirate, check it out!

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Violation Tracker UK April update now LIVE

This month:
- £40m penalty for Yorkshire Water
- £77m+ for car industry cartel
- EY and PwC fined
- Yet another workplace safety fine for Network Rail
- BBC, ITV, and others fined for freelance price-fixing
-Nottingham NHS fined £1.6m

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EY fined almost £5m for its part in the collapse of Thomas Cook, which left thousands stranded abroad and 21,000 people losing their jobs

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Car industry settles competition law case Car manufacturers and industry bodies have reached a settlement with the CMA after admitting to breaking competition law in relation to vehicle recycling, and related advertising claims.

For 15 years 10 carmakers and 2 industry bodies colluded to hide recycling information from customers, denying them the chance to make environmentally-conscious decisions

The CMA has issued £78m in fines

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Dramatic drop in CQC fixed penalty notices since 2019 - Good Jobs First Dramatic drop in CQC fixed penalty notices since 2019 - Good Jobs First

Dramatic drop in CQC fixed penalty notices since 2019, with a number of preventable deaths facing no regulatory enforcement action 👇
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Violation Tracker UK March update now LIVE

This month:
🚢Intrada fined £680k for fatal crash
🏦Major banks fined £104m for gov. bond price fixing
🎰AG Communications fined £1.4m for gambling violations
🏗️West Fraser fined £1m for workplace safety failings

Five broadcasters have been caught colluding on pay rates for freelancers.

BBC, ITV, BT and IMG were fined a combined £4.24m, Sky avoided a fine for alerting the CMA

Protecting All We Care About: The State of UK Regulatory Enforcement - Good Jobs First Protecting All We Care About: The State of UK Regulatory Enforcement - Good Jobs First

There are other options for increasing gov revenue than welfare cuts.

The amount owed to the government in unpaid taxes is estimated by HMRC to be £38.5 billion annually

For each £1 spent on compliance, £18 is returned

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Rachel Reeves to restrict UK competition watchdog’s merger investigations Chancellor wants Competition and Markets Authority’s probes to be faster and more predictable

The CMA is one of the more effective UK regulators, issuing £1,051,186,879 in penalties since 2010
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VTUK February update now LIVE

🗓️This month
- NEW: CQC fixed penalties
- Network Rail and Travis Perkins receive fines for health and safety breaches that resulted in fatalities

CMA reaches settlement with banks in competition case Banks agree to pay fines for past exchanges of sensitive information about UK government bonds.

£104.4m in fines handed out to Citi, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Canada for exchanging sensitive information around government bonds

The CMA has now issued more in fines in the first two months of 2025 than in the entirety of 2024

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Network Rail have been fined £4 million after two workers lost their lives. This will be their 137th sanction since 2010 for safety failures, including multiple deaths and many serious injuries through negligence
In December the RMT warned about 'catastrophic' cuts to maintenance

Ilchester Estate pays nearly £28,000 for over abstracting water The Environment Agency used powers to impose a Variable Monetary Penalty after the estate took more water from the Dorset Frome than it was licensed to do.

Ilchester Estates fined for over-abstraction from precious chalk-stream

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Over half of safe care failings picked up by the Ombudsman not leading to CQC follow up - Good Jobs First Over half of safe care failings picked up by the Ombudsman not leading to CQC follow up - Good Jobs First

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Neglect, poor hygiene, and more: residents are potentially being put at risk by CQC failing to inspect care homes after care quality violations

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2024 UK Corporate Misconduct Roundup - Good Jobs First 2024 UK Corporate Misconduct Roundup - Good Jobs First

How active were UK regulators this year? goodjobsfirst.org/2024-uk-corp...

BAM Nuttall fined after 23-year-old man crushed to death at Shetland wind farm site in work accident The mum of Liam MacDonald, 23, said he was "just at the start of his adult life, still finding who he was, and full of hopes and dreams".

Second conviction of the year for BAM Nuttall, who have now accrued almost £6 million in fines since 2013 and whose safety failures have led to the deaths and serious injuries of multiple workers

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Huge water bill increases announced, meanwhile this year in fines...
Anglian- £372k
Northumbrian- £50k
Severn Trent -£3.3m
Southern- £349k
Thames Water- lost credit ratings
United Utilities - a caution and a warning letter from the DWI
Wessex- £560k
Yorkshire- £200k

Are we paying for poor conduct?

Violation Tracker UK December update now LIVE
This month
- £40m fine for Barclays
- £13m fine for Macquarie Bank
- Crowe UK fined £455k for Akazoo audit
-Amey community fined £600,000 after a prisoner died of legionella

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