Policy Monitor

September 2025

Active Consultation: Jurisdiction: Closing Date:

Home-to-school transport

UK Parliament Respond

Government compensation schemes

UK Parliament Respond

Efficiency and resilience of the Probation Service

UK Parliament Respond

Financial sustainability of children’s care homes

UK Parliament Respond

Tackling fraud and error in benefit expenditure 2024-25

UK Parliament Respond

Financial sustainability of adult hospices in England

UK Parliament Respond

NS&I’s transformation programme

UK Parliament Respond

Faulty energy efficiency installations

UK Parliament Respond

Innovation and global food security

UK Parliament Respond

Child Maintenance Service

UK Parliament Respond

Whole of Government Accounts 2023-24

UK Parliament Respond

Costs of clinical negligence

UK Parliament Respond

Government use of data analytics and external consultants

UK Parliament Respond

Increasing police productivity

UK Parliament Respond

Proposed regulations for direct payments in health and social care

Welsh Government 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Reform of fire and rescue authorities in Wales 2025

Welsh Government 24 Oct 2025 Respond

Review into the development of a formal process and guidance on the handling of Westminster Statutory Instruments that include a role for the Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland Assembly 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Delivering a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers in Wales

Welsh Government 10 Nov 2025 Respond

Stationary vehicle engine idling

Welsh Government 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Corporate parenting: part 6 code of practice on looked after and accommodated children

Welsh Government 27 Oct 2025 Respond

Improving adoption, fostering and kinship services

Welsh Government 20 Oct 2025 Respond

Setting the minimum price of alcohol beyond 2026

Welsh Government 29 Sep 2025 Respond

Socially responsible public procurement

Welsh Government 14 Oct 2025 Respond

National strategy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse

Welsh Government 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Removing profit from children’s care

Welsh Government 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Proposed changes to the regulation of social care services

Welsh Government 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Improving access to support for unpaid carers

Senedd 19 Sep 2025 Respond

Employment support for disabled people

UK Parliament 29 Sep 2025 Respond

Extending the duty on local authorities to broadcast meetings

Welsh Government 28 Nov 2025 Respond

The National Security Strategy

UK Parliament 18 Sep 2025 Respond

Access to Justice

UK Parliament 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Reproductive health conditions: girls and young women

UK Parliament 30 Sep 2025 Respond

BBC World Service 2024-25

UK Parliament 30 Oct 2025 Respond

British Sign Language (Wales) Bill

Senedd 12 Sep 2025 Respond

Financing the real economy

UK Parliament 12 Sep 2025 Respond

Medicines security

UK Parliament 23 Sep 2025 Respond

Implementation of education reforms

Senedd 17 Oct 2025 Respond

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27

Senedd 26 Sep 2025 Respond

Consultation on Shaping Sustainable Places

Northern Ireland Executive 21 Sep 2025 Respond

Draft Environment Strategy

Scottish Government 29 Sep 2025 Respond

Support for part-time study and disabled students: Survey for the Higher Education and Further Education sector, training providers, third sector and interested organisations

Scottish Government 9 Oct 2025 Respond

Scotland’s Census 2031 – Topics

Scottish Government 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Consultation on the setting of Northern Ireland’s Fourth Carbon Budget (2038-2042)

Northern Ireland Executive 17 Nov 2025 Respond

Proposals To Criminalise Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images

Northern Ireland Executive 6 Oct 2025 Respond

Public Consultation on the Plastic Pollution Plan for Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Executive 24 Sep 2025 Respond

The Transport Strategy 2035

Northern Ireland Executive 16 Sep 2025 Respond

Consultation on Divorce and the Dissolution of Civil Partnerships

Northern Ireland Executive 26 Sep 2025 Respond

Community right to buy: review

Scottish Government 5 Oct 2025 Respond

Public Consultation on Northern Ireland’s draft Climate Action Plan 2023-2027

Northern Ireland Executive 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Consultation on NI Executive Anti-Poverty Strategy

Northern Ireland Executive 19 Sep 2025 Respond

Baby Loss Certificate Scheme

Northern Ireland Executive 12 Sep 2025 Respond

Draft Northern Ireland Fostering Services Minimum Standards

Northern Ireland Executive 7 Sep 2025 Respond

Consultation on the HSC Children and Young People’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing Framework

Northern Ireland Executive 26 Sep 2025 Respond

Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill – Call for Evidence

Northern Ireland Assembly 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill

Northern Ireland Assembly 29 Sep 2025 Respond

Review of Assembly Committee engagement on cross-cutting Executive strategies

Northern Ireland Assembly 30 Sep 2025 Respond

Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament 15 Sep 2025 Respond

Smart metering policy framework post 2025

UK Government 3 Oct 2025 Respond

Late payments: tackling poor payment practices

UK Government 23 Oct 2025 Respond

FS Sector Strategy: Review of the Financial Ombudsman Service

UK Government 8 Oct 2025 Respond

Green Paper: Future of Post Office

UK Government 6 Oct 2025 Respond

Digital justice system: inclusion framework and pre-action model

UK Government 19 Sep 2025 Respond

Consultation on a reformed Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes

UK Government 10 Sep 2025 Respond

​​Improving the Energy Efficiency of Socially Rented Homes in England

UK Government 10 Sep 2025 Respond

Modernising and improving the administration of council tax

UK Government 12 Sep 2025 Respond

Economic growth in Northern Ireland: new and emerging sectors

UK Parliament 19 Sep 2025 Respond

Ecocide (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament 9 Sep 2025 Respond

Draft Climate Change Plan Scrutiny 2025

Scottish Parliament 19 Sep 2025 Respond

Commissioner for Older People (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament 12 Sep 2025 Respond

SSI to add “sex” as a characteristic to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021

Scottish Government 10 Oct 2025 Respond

Voices in Justice: Parole Reform in Scotland

Scottish Government 11 Nov 2025 Respond

Financial transparency and profit limitation in children’s residential care

Scottish Government 6 Oct 2025 Respond

Scotland’s Fourth Land Use Strategy

Scottish Government 5 Oct 2025 Respond