A new approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth
An Action Plan setting out the government's approach to regulation and regulators
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This Action Plan sets out the next steps to our approach on regulation and regulators. It includes a range of pledges from regulators to support this effort. It will enable a regulatory system that supports innovation and economic growth while ensuring accountability for the quality of regulations introduced, as well as the way in which independent regulators implement and enforce them.
Updates to this page
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Sentence added on key indicators in the Financial Services regulators. Clarification of commitments made on the Airspace Design Service (UKADS) and Support Fund
Update history
2026-07-08 09:30
‘Regulation Action Plan Progress Report (July 2026)’ and ‘Update Against the Regulation Action Plan’s Key Regulator Pledges (May 2026)’ added to the page.
2025-10-22 10:21
Regulation Action Plan – Progress Update and Next Step updated to include further detail from DEFRA and the Welsh Government on pages 12-13, on their plans to reform environmental permitting regulations to exempt low-risk activities from permitting to speed up the consenting process for developments; including nationally significant infrastructure projects.
2025-10-21 12:00
Six months after the publication of the Regulation Action Plan, the government has published an update setting out progress delivered and the next steps it will take to upgrade the UK regulatory system. This publication is supplemented by a technical annex, setting out the government’s approach to calculating administrative burdens, and a progress update setting out key regulators’ progress in delivering the commitments that they announced in March.
2025-03-31 16:19
Sentence added on key indicators in the Financial Services regulators. Clarification of commitments made on the Airspace Design Service (UKADS) and Support Fund
2025-03-17 00:01
First published.