Disclosure Of Payments To Governments By Oil, Gas And Mining Companies

EDM number 642 in 2010-12, proposed by Malcolm Bruce on 26/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Coal, International development and Oil, petrol and natural gas.

That this House notes that corruption in the oil, gas and mining industries has caused great human misery in Africa and other developing regions; considers that corruption would be curbed by full disclosure of revenue payments to governments by oil, gas and mining companies; further notes that the United States Congress is considering a law to require all such companies regulated in the US to fully disclose such payments; and urges the Government to consider similar legislation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.