By Dr Minh Alexander retired consultant psychiatrist 31 January 2026
This is a brief update for whistleblowers.
A citizen has done a public service by publicly establishing some accountability with regards to the troubling private company WhistleblowersUK, company number 09347927.
They successfully lodged a complaint to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner about the fact that Tessa Munt MP had not registered her role as a director of the company.
This is the Commissioner’s decision bundle of 13 January 2026.
The document provides a useful baseline in that Ms Munt has now committed to the public record her understanding of the nature of the company, which she presently characterises as “not for profit”.
She has stated that she is “deeply” and “truly sorry” for errors in not registering interests.
One matter jarred somewhat. The Commissioner determined that the failure to register was “inadvertent” and decided there was misapplication of the rules.
I reminded him that I wrote to him in early 2025 about a related but separate matter, in which I informed him that Tessa Munt had not registered her role as WhistleblowersUK’s Vice Chair, and that I had not received any response when I wrote to her about this.
I have now furnished him with the TWO unanswered emails that I sent Ms Munt on this matter and asked him if her failure to register her interest could really be “inadvertent”.
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WhistleblowersUK is an entity which has an interest in establishing a US-type financial model of bounty hunting, to replace the mainstream of current UK whistleblowing law and practice. Many whistleblowers are very concerned about this,and see the move as part of private industry’s attempts to monetise what should be the public interest. There are fears that this will distort governance, waste public money and lead to exploitation and unfairness to whistleblowers and sectors which are not lucrative from the bounty hunting industry’s perspective.
There were also concerns about lobbying and access to parliament through a now defunct APPG, administrated by WhistleblowersUK, which received funding from US bounty hunting law firms. There is concern that another similar APPG will be established.
WhistleblowersUK charges whistleblowers for its services and seeks to recover a percentage of their settlements and awards. WhistleblowersUK’s documents have been revealed by a number of whistleblowers who have had dealings with the company.
Whistleblowing v Bounty hunting. A new whistleblowing APPG with sponsorship from bounty hunters
Norman Lamb MP has resigned from the Whistleblowing All Party Parliamentary Group
Alexander's Excavations 