 A draft Bribery Bill was announced in the 2002 Queen 's Speech , but was rejected by the joint committee examining it . A second consultation paper was issued in 2005 examining the committee 's concerns , before the government announced in March that " there was broad support for reform of the current law , but there was no consensus as to how this could be achieved " . Following a white paper in March 2009 , the Bribery Bill , based on the Law Commission 's 2008 report Reforming Bribery , was announced in the Queen 's Speech . Initially given all @-@ party support after its introduction by Jack Straw in 2009 , the Bill was , according to The Guardian , subject to an attempted filibuster by Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party . This followed pressure from the Confederation of British Industry , who worried that the Bill in its original form would hamper the competitiveness of British industry . 
