diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/components/_filter-panel.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/components/_filter-panel.scss
index 9b4f7ca3a..0e4e602fa 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/components/_filter-panel.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/components/_filter-panel.scss
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
   background-color:  govuk-colour("light-grey");
   padding: 0 govuk-spacing(3);
   margin-top: govuk-spacing(2);
+
+  // GOV.UK Frontend radio and checkboxes are rendered with a transparent background, which makes
+  // them look wrong on this component's grey background. This is intentional in GOV.UK Frontend and
+  // unlikely to change (see https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/1625).
+  .govuk-checkboxes__label, .govuk-radios__label {
+    &::before {
+        background-color: govuk-colour('white');
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 .app-c-filter-panel__header {
diff --git a/app/views/components/docs/filter_panel.yml b/app/views/components/docs/filter_panel.yml
index 61670bacb..25902cdab 100644
--- a/app/views/components/docs/filter_panel.yml
+++ b/app/views/components/docs/filter_panel.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,44 @@ examples:
         } do %>
           <span>filter section content</span>
         <% end %>
+  with_radios_and_checkboxes:
+    description: |
+      Overrides default styles of GOV.UK Frontend radios and checkboxes to ensure they have a white
+      background despite being inside a grey panel.
+    data:
+      button_text: Filter with radios and checkboxes
+      open: true
+      block: |
+        <div class="govuk-!-padding-4">
+          <%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/radio", {
+            heading: "Radios",
+            name: "radio",
+            small: true,
+            items: [
+              { value: "1", text: "Radio 1" },
+              { value: "2", text: "Radio 2", checked: true }
+            ]
+          } %>
+          <%= render "govuk_publishing_components/components/checkboxes", {
+            name: "checkbox",
+            heading: "Checkboxes",
+            small: true,
+            items: [
+              {
+                label: "Red",
+                value: "red"
+              },
+              {
+                label: "Green",
+                value: "green"
+              },
+              {
+                label: "Blue",
+                value: "blue"
+              }
+            ]
+          } %>
+        </div>
   with_margin_bottom:
     description: |
       Allows the spacing at the bottom of the component to be adjusted.