| Open Consultations | Date Closes |
|---|---|
| Heat Networks: Ensuring Sustained Investment and Protecting Consumers | 1 Feb 2019 |
| Salaried workers and salary sacrifice schemes | 1 Mar 2019 |
| The future of small-scale low carbon generation: a consultation on a Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) | 5 Mar 2019 |
| Proposals regarding the planning system for electricity storage | 25 Mar 2019 |
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| Closed Consultations | Date Closed |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity pay reporting | 11 Jan 2019 |
| Offshore Environmental Civil Sanctions Regulations 2018: Draft Guidance Document | 18 Dec 2018 |
| Creating a Responsible Payment Culture: A Call for Evidence in Tackling Late Payment | 29 Nov 2018 |
| Renewable Heat Incentive: biomass combustion in urban areas | 27 Nov 2018 |
| Inclusion of Shale Gas Production Projects in the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project Regime | 25 Oct 2018 |
| See All Closed Consultations | |
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We sought views on the draft Co-ordination of Regulatory Enforcement Regulations 2017 which include measures to ensure that Primary Authority can operate from 1 October 2017 when the scheme is extended and simplified by provisions in the Enterprise Act 2016. We also asked for views on replacing the ‘categories’ system for defining the scope of partnerships.
We received 64 formal responses and also obtained feedback from around 240 stakeholders who attended engagement events held during the consultation period.
Stakeholders were broadly supportive of the measures in the draft regulations. There was a wider range of views on the proposed new approach for determining the scope of partnerships.
As a result of the consultation responses and wider stakeholder feedback we have amended the draft regulations.
We have also produced draft revised Primary Authority Statutory Guidance. This reflects and clarifies the changes to Primary Authority introduced by the Enterprise Act 2016 and the new secondary legislation. It also describes how the new approach to defining partnerships will work in practice.
The full Government response is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/unlocking-the-potential-of-primary-authority
We invited views on how to improve the UK’s corporate governance framework.
We received 375 responses from interested parties. A summary of the responses is included in the consultation response document.
In the coming months we will introduce new laws to require:
We asked for views on proposals to simplify the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations. We also asked whether we should ban employment agencies and businesses from recruiting solely from other European Economic Area (EEA) countries without advertising in Great Britain.
We received 30 responses to the consultation. Respondents were in favour with the majority of proposals but felt that our proposal to remove regulation 27 (which determines the circumstances in which an employment agency can advertise a position) would have a negative impact on vulnerable people looking for work.
We intend to simplify the regulation for businesses while retaining protections for work-seekers. We will:
Due to concerns raised during the consultation we have decided to keep regulation 27.