Policy Monitor

November 2025

Active Consultation: Jurisdiction: Closing Date:

Learner travel operational guidance 2025: consultation

Welsh Government 28 Nov 2025 Respond

Home buying and selling reform

UK Government 29 Dec 2025 Respond

Post-16 level 3 and below pathways

UK Government 8 Jan 2026 Respond

New penalties for water company offences

UK Government 1 Dec 2025 Respond

Make Work Pay: enhanced dismissal protections for pregnant women and new mothers

UK Government 12 Jan 2026 Respond

Make Work Pay: duty to inform workers of right to join a union

UK Government 16 Dec 2025 Respond

Make Work Pay: trade union right of access

UK Government 16 Dec 2025 Respond

Make Work Pay: leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss

UK Government 12 Jan 2026 Respond

BBC World Service 2024-25

UK Parliament 24 Nov 2025 Respond

Priorities of the Business and Trade Committee for 2026

UK Parliament 14 Nov 2025 Respond

Routes to Settlement

UK Parliament 2 Dec 2025 Respond

Fair pay agreement process in adult social care

UK Government 13 Jan 2026 Respond

Extending the duty on local authorities to broadcast meetings

Welsh Government 28 Nov 2025 Respond

Delivering a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers in Wales

Welsh Government 10 Nov 2025 Respond

Proposed refinements to the classification of self-catering properties for local tax purposes

Welsh Government 20 Nov 2025 Respond

Making changes to the Welsh Tax Acts

Welsh Government 28 Nov 2025 Respond

Healthcare Inspectorate Wales strategy 2026 to 2030

Welsh Government 1 Dec 2025 Respond

National Minimum Standards (NMS) for Regulated Childcare: proposed changes 2025

Welsh Government 10 Dec 2025 Respond

Personal education plans for children looked after: draft guidance for practitioners

Welsh Government 1 Dec 2025 Respond

Data to monitor the additional learning needs (ALN) system

Welsh Government 3 Dec 2025 Respond

Changes to local government elections rules in Wales

Welsh Government 12 Jan 2026 Respond

Draft National Framework for Fire and Rescue Services

Welsh Government 17 Dec 2025 Respond

School inspections are changing

Scottish Government 26 Nov 2025 Respond

Learning Disability Service Model

Northern Ireland Executive 25 Nov 2025 Respond

Consultation on The Future of Qualifications

Northern Ireland Executive 13 Nov 2025 Respond

UK-wide consultation on proposed amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 to increase pharmacist flexibilities when dispensing medicines by enabling pharmacists working in a community pharmacy to supply a different strength or formulation (which

Northern Ireland Executive 11 Dec 2025 Respond

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in New Housing Developments

Northern Ireland Executive 19 Dec 2025 Respond

Draft Revised Code of Practice for the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

Northern Ireland Executive 29 Dec 2025 Respond

Consultation on Disability and Work: A Strategy for Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Executive 12 Jan 2026 Respond

Consultation on Policy – The Statutory Regulation of Tourist Accommodation

Northern Ireland Executive 6 Jan 2026 Respond

Consultation on the establishment of a new organisation to support controlled schools

Northern Ireland Executive 11 Dec 2025 Respond

Scotland’s Census 2031 – Topics

Scottish Government 11 Nov 2025 Respond

Voices in Justice: Parole Reform in Scotland

Scottish Government 11 Nov 2025 Respond

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

Northern Ireland Executive 17 Nov 2025 Respond

Compulsory Purchase Reform in Scotland

Scottish Government 19 Dec 2025 Respond

NHS Delivery – a new national delivery organisation to lead transformation across our health and social care system

Scottish Government 30 Nov 2025 Respond

Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 thresholds

Scottish Government 8 Jan 2026 Respond

Draft Circular Economy Strategy

Scottish Government 13 Jan 2026 Respond

A consultation on the enforcement of the Temporary Accommodation Standards Framework

Scottish Government 28 Jan 2026 Respond

Digital Assets (Scotland) Bill

Scottish Parliament 12 Nov 2025 Respond

Banning the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children

UK Government 26 Nov 2025 Respond

Amend regulations to support the supply and deployment of vaccines

UK Government 26 Nov 2025 Respond

Continuing the Warm Home Discount Scheme

UK Government 17 Nov 2025 Respond