Consultations closed with response
Once the consultation deadline has passed and we have analysed the responses, we will publish the Government Response. We aim to do this within three months of the date the consultation closed.
Details of consultations run before June 2009 can be found on the National Archives website.
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Response published: 03 Dec 2012
Consultation period: 18 Oct 2012 to 09 Nov 2012
The Government is creating a new employment status: “employee owner”. This will give businesses greater choice about the contracts they can offer to individuals, whilst ensuring appropriate levels of protection are maintained.
Response published: 30 Nov 2012
Consultation period: 23 Mar 2012 to 23 May 2012
The purpose of this consultation was to seek views on the amendment and removal of statutory instruments which were identified under the Retail and Manufacturing Red Tape Challenge spotlight process.
Response published: 19 Nov 2012
Consultation period: 27 Jul 2012 to 10 Sep 2012
The consultation seeks views and opinions on a proposal to create an order making power, which if utilised, would compel suppliers of services and goods to provide to their customers, upon request, historic transaction and consumption data in an open standard machine readable format.
Response published: 16 Nov 2012
Consultation period: 12 Apr 2012 to 06 Jul 2012
Consultation on the implementation of the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU.
Response published: 13 Nov 2012
Consultation period: 16 May 2011 to 08 Aug 2011
Response published: 30 Oct 2012
Consultation period: 07 Jul 2012 to 07 Sep 2012
Views were sought on the measures recommended in the Nuttall Review to raise awareness of employee ownership.
Response published: 11 Oct 2012
Consultation period: 14 Jun 2012 to 26 Jul 2012
Response published: 14 Sep 2012
Consultation period: 15 Mar 2012 to 08 Jun 2012
We are seeking evidence on current dismissal processes, including the Acas Code of Practice on Discipline and Grievance and the concept of 'compensated no fault dismissal' for micro businesses.
Response published: 14 Sep 2012
Consultation period: 11 Jan 2011 to 05 Apr 2011
Response published: 14 Sep 2012
Consultation period: 23 Nov 2011 to 31 Jan 2012
Response published: 13 Sep 2012
Consultation period: 29 Jun 2012 to 10 Aug 2012
Response published: 06 Sep 2012
Consultation period: 06 Oct 2011 to 29 Dec 2011
Consultation on changing audit exemptions for small companies and subsidiaries to remove gold plating, and to allow companies to change their accounting framework.
Response published: 09 Aug 2012
Consultation period: 10 Apr 2012 to 04 Jun 2012
This consultation seeks views from principals, lecturers, other staff, employer and employee representative bodies, and all others with an interest, on the revocation of the further education workforce regulations, as recommended in the interim report by the Independent Review Panel on professionalism in further education.
Response published: 01 Aug 2012
Consultation period: 13 Jan 2012 to 06 Apr 2012
This consultation seeks your views on the European Commission’s Proposals to align a package of nine Directives to the New Legislative Framework.
Response published: 19 Jul 2012
Consultation period: 02 Feb 2012 to 26 Apr 2012
Sought views on the proposed abolition of the British Shipbuilders corporation.
Response published: 13 Jul 2012
Consultation period: 28 Mar 2012 to 27 Apr 2012
The purpose of this consultation was to elicit views on how structural funds, rural development funds and maritime and fisheries funds can best be used to develop and maintain sustainable growth and jobs in 2014-2020.
Response published: 04 Jul 2012
Consultation period: 19 Sep 2011 to 12 Dec 2011
Consultation that explores what a mutual Post Office Ltd might look like. It seek feedback for more clarity on the issues that the government would need to take into account before mutualisation could be achieved.
Response published: 28 Jun 2012
Consultation period: 20 Jul 2011 to 02 Nov 2011
This consultation aims to gather views on the desirability of revising the IDA to update some of its provisions to reflect current economic realities. In the government’s view there are several outdated requirements in the Act, which have stood unchanged since 1982.
Response published: 27 Jun 2012
Consultation period: 14 Mar 2012 to 27 Apr 2012
Response published: 11 Jun 2012
Consultation period: 04 Aug 2011 to 27 Oct 2011
In the White Paper ‘Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System’ the government set out plans for reform of the regulatory system for Higher Education in England. This consultation, now closed, covers the more technical aspects of these proposals with a view to informing a future Higher Education Bill, where legislative change is required.
Response published: 11 Jun 2012
Consultation period: 28 Jun 2011 to 20 Sep 2011
The purpose of this consultation was to receive input to the Government’s overall
package of proposals for reforming higher education in England, as set out in this
White Paper.
Response published: 21 May 2012
Consultation period: 11 Nov 2011 to 11 Feb 2012
This consultation seeks views on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Recreational Craft and Personal Watercraft.
Response published: 11 May 2012
Consultation period: 02 Feb 2012 to 15 Mar 2012
Response published: 04 May 2012
Consultation period: 21 Dec 2011 to 31 Jan 2012
This Call for Evidence seeks views from UK stakeholders on recent proposals from the European Commission on consumer alternative dispute resolution. In summary, the Commission argue that all EU consumers should be able to solve their problems without going to court, regardless of the kind of product or service that the contractual dispute is about and regardless of where they bought it in the European Single Market. In addition, for consumers shopping online and from another EU country, the Commission want to create an EU-wide single online platform which will allow contractual disputes to be solved entirely online and within 30 days. The proposals are likely to impact UK consumers, businesses and organisations that currently provide alternative dispute resolution services. Views are sought on the likely scale of these impacts. Views received will help form the UK’s negotiating position.
Response published: 11 Apr 2012
Consultation period: 21 Jun 2011 to 27 Sep 2011
Empowering and Protecting Consumers: Consultation on institutional changes for provision of consumer information, advice, education, advocacy and enforcement.
Response published: 27 Mar 2012
Consultation period: 18 Oct 2011 to 10 Jan 2012
A consultation paper seeking views on proposed reforms to the structure of the Financial Reporting Council has been published. Responses due by 10 January 2012.
BIS and FRC consulted jointly on proposals to reform the FRC. The proposals were designed to clarify the FRC’s scope, streamline its governance and structure, and give it greater independence from the accountancy profession and a proportionate range of sanctions against poor quality auditing.
The response to the consultation helped the Department and the FRC refine the proposals. In particular the proposals have been amended to enhance the status of the expert groups that will advise the FRC Board on accounting, auditing and actuarial issues and to make clear the procedural safeguards that will be put in place as part of the FRC’s monitoring and enforcement work.
The Government intends, subject to Parliamentary approval, to bring forward secondary legislation for changes to come into force from Monday, 2nd July 2012.
The joint Government and FRC response was published on 27th March 2012 (please see link below).
Response published: 27 Mar 2012
Consultation period: 19 Sep 2011 to 25 Nov 2011
Consultation paper that sought views on issues relating to corporate narrative reporting.
Response published: 15 Mar 2012
Consultation period: 16 Mar 2011 to 13 Jun 2011
Following the Government's consultation, we are proposing to create a new Competition and Markets Authority that brings the Competition Commission and the OFT’s competition functions into a single organisation and to modernise its competition toolkit. The creation of a single Authority will enable us to eliminate inefficiency and unnecessary duplication in our markets and mergers regime . It will also ensure that we have a single organisation with the right powers and flexibility to use the best processes in tackling competition problems, and one that can help business understand their competition law obligations. Resource allocation will be improved, and business will benefit from having just one, streamlined organisation that helps them to understand and comply with competition law.
Response published: 23 Feb 2012
Consultation period: 28 Jun 2011 to 20 Sep 2011
We are consulting on potential early repayment mechanisms for student loans – similar to those paid by people who pre-pay their mortgages.
Response published: 19 Jan 2012
Consultation period: 18 Oct 2011 to 29 Nov 2011
Consultation to gather views on the proposal to establish the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) as an independent charity with a separate charitable trust to hold the National Lottery endowment. BIS has considered replies to the consultation and has summarised them in a Government response.
Response published: 07 Dec 2011
Consultation period: 24 Jun 2011 to 16 Sep 2011
How regulation is enforced can be just as important for managing the burdens on business as the overall volume of regulation; and the way in which enforcement is approached also impacts on our ability to deliver high levels of compliance. As part of the Government’s reform strategy we are looking for better ways to implement regulation, to improve compliance outcomes whilst reducing burdens on compliant businesses and focusing resources on higher risk organisations.
Response published: 01 Dec 2011
Consultation period: 16 Aug 2011 to 21 Oct 2011
Consultation on 'New Challenges, New Chances: next steps in implementing the further education reform programme'. Feedback invited by 21 October 2011. Relates to other consultations on further education loans and informal adult and community learning.
Response published: 29 Nov 2011
Consultation period: 23 Jun 2011 to 16 Sep 2011
The Government has launched two documents underpinning a consultation period on regulatory enforcement to seek views on the best ways to deliver improvements. Proposed changes will deliver commitments made in the Growth Review as part of a package of measures to free up business from unnecessary regulatory burdens.
Response published: 23 Nov 2011
Consultation period: 27 Jan 2011 to 20 Apr 2011
This consultation, conducted by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is a significant step in the Government’s Employment Law Review. We have considered over 400 responses to the consultation, summarised these and outlined the measures we intend to take forward in the Government response.
Response published: 19 Sep 2011
Consultation period: 02 Aug 2010 to 19 Oct 2010
Consultation paper seeking views on issues relating to corporate narrative reporting.
Response published: 20 Jul 2011
Consultation period: 04 Feb 2011 to 01 Apr 2011
Response published: 19 Jul 2011
Consultation period: 15 Oct 2010 to 10 Dec 2010
Response published: 06 Jul 2011
Consultation period: 11 Aug 2010 to 15 Sep 2010
Consultation seeking views about the future of the ‘right to request time to train’ legislation and whether the right should be repealed, retained for large organisations or extended to small and medium sized organisations as planned. BIS has considered replies to the consultation and has summarised them in a Government response.
Response published: 30 Jun 2011
Consultation period: 25 Mar 2010 to 18 Jun 2010
The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on the consequential amendments necessary to the Scheme following the changes introduced at part 8 of the Local Democracy Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (the 2009 Act) to amend the 1996 Act; and on proposals put forward by the Construction Umbrella Bodies Adjudication Task Group (CUBATG) to improve the effectiveness of the Scheme.
Response published: 16 Jun 2011
Consultation period: 18 Jan 2011 to 12 Apr 2011
Response published: 18 May 2011
Consultation period: 20 Aug 2010 to 24 Sep 2010
The review of offender learning announced by John Hayes, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, will assess progress against the policy framework set out in the Next Steps document and make recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the arrangements. The review, undertaken jointly with the National Offender Management Service, is taking full account of the earlier strategic review of employment services for offenders (undertaken jointly between the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice), and will inform the Ministry of Justice’s Autumn Green Paper setting out the proposed approach to sentencing and rehabilitation reform.
Response published: 01 Apr 2011
Consultation period: 13 Oct 2010 to 04 Jan 2011
This call for evidence document sets out details of the background to, and UK participation in, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development and explores areas where BIS would like to seek further views.
Response published: 31 Mar 2011
Consultation period: 09 Dec 2010 to 03 Feb 2011
This consultation, conducted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), seeks views to inform the implementation of Skills Conditionality. Skills conditionality involves Jobcentre Plus referring claimants to a skills training provider, further education college or Next Step adviser with potential benefit sanctions for non-participation. The training will include vocational, basic skills, employability training as well as support with softer skills such as motivation and confidence building.
Response published: 18 Mar 2011
Consultation period: 06 Nov 2009 to 12 Feb 2010
The UK and Scottish Governments are consulting on the case for amending and modernising the law as it applies to the control of street trading and the certification of pedlars.
Response published: 24 Feb 2011
Consultation period: 08 Oct 2010 to 30 Nov 2010
The low proportion of women holding directorships suggests British business is not using all of the skills and talents of the workforce effectively. Government is committed to seeing swift change in this area, and this Call for Evidence is seeking views from across the business world.
Response published: 28 Jan 2011
Consultation period: 21 Dec 2009 to 15 Mar 2010
Bills of sale are being use to support "log book" lending, namely lending using a consumer's car as security. This practice has been the subject of relatively high levels of complaints to consumer groups and the OFT.
Response published: 13 Jan 2011
Consultation period: 29 Jul 2010 to 21 Oct 2010
The Coalition's Programme for Government commits the Government to phasing out the Default Retirement Age (DRA). This consultation sets out the background to the DRA, and explains how the Government is proposing to remove it. The Government's response to the consultation was published on 13 January 2011 and confirms that the DRA will be phased out. The document is available via a link at the bottom of the Retirement Age consultation page.
Response published: 10 Dec 2010
Consultation period: 09 Jul 2010 to 01 Oct 2010
Response published: 10 Dec 2010
Consultation period: 17 Sep 2010 to 10 Dec 2010
Published by the Government Office for Science, the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees sets out good practice in relation to the function and working of Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs).
Response published: 08 Dec 2010
Consultation period: 12 Mar 2010 to 18 Jun 2010
This consultation makes proposals to revise the current scheme for the registration of company charges under the Companies Act 2006 based on the 2001 recommendations of the Company Law Review and the subsequent advice of the Law Commission.
