Anti-Bribery Policy Template (UK Bribery Act 2010 s.7)
UK Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy template aligned to the Bribery Act 2010 section 7 ‘adequate procedures’ statutory defence. MoJ guidance, gift register and third-party due diligence included.
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What is the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy?
Quick answer. UK Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy template aligned to the Bribery Act 2010 section 7 ‘adequate procedures’ statutory defence. MoJ guidance, gift register and third-party due diligence included. The s.7 ‘failure to prevent bribery’ corporate offence is strict-liability — only the ‘adequate procedures’ defence reduces it.
The Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy is one of 988 single-policy templates available on PolicySuite. Each is generated bespoke to your business from structured questions about your operations — not a generic word-doc template you have to rewrite. Buy this single policy at £49.99, or get the complete UK Employment Pack (15 policies for £400) if you need the surrounding policies too.
What’s included in the template
- Six MoJ Principles of adequate procedures
- Gifts, hospitality and donation thresholds + register
- Facilitation payments — zero-tolerance position
- Third-party due diligence proportionate to risk
- Foreign public officials enhanced controls
- Reporting channels integrated with whistleblowing
- Training cadence + role-based modules
- Annual board-level review and risk reassessment
Statutory and framework references
The template is drafted with explicit citations to the following anchors so your auditor, tribunal or ICO inspector can verify alignment. Every reference resolves to a primary-source link — legislation.gov.uk for UK statute, iso.org for ISO standards, ico.org.uk for ICO codes, acas.org.uk for ACAS Codes, and legislation.gov.uk for UK Acts and Regulations.
- Bribery Act 2010 ss.1, 2, 6, 7
- MoJ ‘Adequate Procedures’ statutory guidance
- Crime and Courts Act 2013 (DPAs for s.7 offences)
- Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (linked due diligence)
- OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
Why this policy matters
In 2024 alone, UK regulators and tribunals continued to test the documentation behind Bribery Act 2010 ss.1, 2, 6, 7. The ICO issued over £56m in monetary penalties that year and the employment tribunals decided more than 12,800 cases where written policies were the controlling evidence. We see many UK SMEs lose disputes not because they lacked the policy entirely, but because the policy they had was generic, out of date, or unaccompanied by acknowledgement evidence. In our experience, a bespoke Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy sized to your business is the cheapest single line of defence against that outcome.
The three failures we see most often, for example across the 988 templates in the catalogue, are: (1) an unsigned, undated document with no version history; (2) a copy-paste template that names statutes the business does not actually engage (a tribunal will spot this in minutes); and (3) a policy never communicated to the people it binds. PolicySuite’s acknowledgement-tracking and version-stamping close the third gap by default. In our experience working with UK SMEs across UK statute and the ICO accountability framework, the policy that fails an audit is rarely the one that was missing — it is the one that was generic, undated, or never communicated. A bespoke policy generated from your own answers, version-stamped and distributed with acknowledgement tracking, is what stands up.
How PolicySuite generates this template for you
Buying the £49.99 single policy unlocks PolicySuite’s structured-question flow for the Anti-Bribery & Corruption Policy. You answer ten to twenty questions about your business — sector, headcount, jurisdictions, processing categories, supplier dependencies — and the platform produces a bespoke policy in minutes. The output is fully editable, signed off in-app, and version-stamped so your audit trail is automatic.
Where the template references statute or framework controls, the citations are kept up to date as the regulations change. We track UK statute amendments, ISO revisions, and the periodic ICO, ACAS and HSE guidance updates so the policy you bought today does not silently rot in the back of your shared drive. When something material changes — a new statutory duty, a fresh ICO code of practice, an Annex A revision — you receive an in-app notification and a one-click re-generation prompt that retains all of your business-specific answers.
Single policy versus the full pack
A single £49.99 template is the right choice when you already have the surrounding policies and just need to plug a specific gap. If you need the complete framework set, the UK Employment Pack (15 policies for £400) bundles the related policies at a lower per-policy cost, with a pack-level audit-mapping table included.
Further reading
Read the in-depth Anti-Bribery library page for context on why the policy matters and what auditors and tribunals look for. The framework page UK Employment explains how this policy fits the wider compliance picture.