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Have Your Say: Local and Central Government Consultations
This page lists some of the current consultations (unless otherwise stated consultations finish at 23:59 on the date indicated).
To explore other consultations you can look to these two links:
Bracknell Forest at: https://consult.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/kse/
National Consultations at: https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations?content_store_document_type%5B%5D=open_consultations&order=updated-newest
If there are other consultations that you know of that should be included, or you want to be kept informed of certain topics, please get in touch with Bob Miller at bob.miller@ntlworld.com.
Local Consultations | ||
| Consultation | Description | Closing Date |
| Parks Satisfaction Survey | To collect feedback from residents and visitors about Bracknell Forest parks and open spaces. | 31 December 2029 03:17PM |
| The Willows Family Hub | To help us plan for future groups and sessions we would like to hear your views about the Willows Family Hub | 31/03/2025 12:15PM |
UK Government Consultations | ||
| Consultation | Description | Closing Date |
| Raising product standards for space heating | This consultation seeks views on proposals to improve product standards by updating ecodesign and energy labelling legislation for space and combination heaters. These proposals aim to increase the efficiency of space heaters, thereby both reducing carbon emissions and consumer bills, along with driving efficiency within the space heater market and increasing consumer clarity when choosing products. | 25 March 2025 |
| Reforms to inheritance tax reliefs: consultation on property settled into trust | We welcome views on the technical application of upcoming changes to agricultural property relief and business property relief to property settled into trust. | 23 April 2025 |
| Construction Products Reform Green Paper |
The tragedy at Grenfell Tower and the two subsequent independent reviews, conducted by Dame Judith Hackitt and Paul Morrell and Anneliese Day, exposed significant failures in the construction products regulatory system, revealing institutional failures that allowed profit to come before safety. Despite the significant reforms initiated in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government is clear that critical gaps persist in the construction products regulatory framework. This government is proposing a series of ambitious and far-reaching reforms aimed at enhancing safety, ensuring accountability, and fostering innovation and growth and therefore confidence across the construction sector. The green paper supports the government response to the Grenfell Inquiry. It sets out a range of proposals for construction products reform, including proposals that address the Inquiry‘s recommendations. The green paper also serves as the government’s response to the Independent Review of Product Testing and Certification (the Morrell-Day Review) (PDF, 2.1MB). |
21 May 2025 |
| GB type approval scheme: cyber-security and software update requirements |
This consultation seeks views on our proposal to mandate approval to 2 internationally recognised technical regulations under the GB type approval scheme. They are: UN Regulation No. 155 on cyber-security and cyber security management systems UN Regulation No. 156 on software updates and software update management systems |
28 April 2025 |
| Expanding the Warm Home Discount Scheme, 2025 to 2026 | This consultation sets out proposals to expand the reach of the Warm Home Discount Scheme by removing the high-cost-to-heat threshold in the current Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (for winter 2025 to 2026) and increasing the level of spend available in Scotland for suppliers to allocate through the Broader Group. All households in receipt of means-tested benefits would then be eligible to receive the £150 rebate. | 24 March 2025 |
| Extending licensing hours for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 matches. | We are keen to hear from everyone who may be affected by a national relaxation of licensing hours, including: members of the public, those who live near to licensed premises, those who own or work in on-trade premises, the police, licensing authorities and trade associations | Midday on 23 March 2025 |
| Funding arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant from 2026/27 onwards | The Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG) is provided to all local authorities in England to support their statutory obligations and to help deliver local homelessness and rough sleeping strategies. This consultation is seeking views on HPG and the formula that is used to calculate the need for funding. This consultation will consider proposals on the measures and metrics used to ensure need is calculated accurately based on current and relative pressures. | 11:45pm on 11 March 2025 |
| Supported Housing regulation: consultation | This consultation seeks views on plans to implement measures set out in the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023. The government is proposing to introduce a locally led licensing regime for supported housing across England, and new National Supported Housing Standards for the support provided. The government is also consulting on changes to Housing Benefit Regulations. The intention of the reforms is to ensure that supported housing is good quality and delivers value for money for the taxpayer. | 15 May 2025 |
| A railway fit for Britain's future | We are seeking views on new policies to be included in the forthcoming Railways Bill, which will enable the establishment of Great British Railways (GBR). GBR will be a single directing mind that will run our rail infrastructure and passenger services in the public interest. The overall aim of these proposed reforms is to provide a railway that works better for both passengers and taxpayers across Great Britain. | 15 April 2025 |
| Plant varieties and seeds framework for precision bred plant varieties in England | We want to know what you think of our plans to introduce a new framework for precision bred plant varieties in England. The framework includes a precision bred plant variety list for England for precision bred agricultural and vegetable plant varieties. We want to understand how the proposed variety list will impact businesses and other organisations. | 14 April 2025 |
| Civil legal aid: Towards a sustainable future | This consultation considers increases to civil legal aid fees for Housing and Debt work, and Immigration and Asylum work. We are also seeking further evidence on potential changes to some aspects of contractual requirements. This consultation is the first step in our response to the evidence gathered during the Review of Civil Legal Aid (RoCLA). | 21 March 2025 |
| Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals | Ransomware is malicious software (malware) that infects a victim’s computer system. The targets of ransomware can range from ordinary individuals using their home computers and other personal devices, to major companies and public bodies whose entire systems and networks are put under attack. The Home Office proposes to introduce legislation to counter ransomware and meet three main objectives: to reduce the amount of money flowing to ransomware criminals from the UK, thereby deterring criminals from attacking UK organisations to increase the ability of operational agencies to disrupt and investigate ransomware actors by increasing our intelligence around the ransomware payment landscape to enhance the government’s understanding of the threats in this area to inform future interventions, including through cooperation at international level | 5pm on 8 April 2025 |
| Promoting electronic invoicing across UK businesses and the public sector | E-invoicing is the digital exchange of invoice information directly between buyers’ and suppliers’ financial systems, even if these systems are different. The outcome is an invoice which is automatically written into the buyer’s financial system without manual processing. HMRC and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) are publishing a joint consultation to understand how e-invoicing may align with you or your customers’ businesses. We are interested in responses from businesses of all sizes – whether they use e-invoicing or not – as well as interest groups, representative bodies, industry bodies and individuals. | 7 May 2025 |
| Draft National Policy Statement for nuclear energy generation (EN-7) | We’re consulting on the draft of the new nuclear National Policy Statement (NPS) EN-7, following the previous consultation on a proposed approach to siting new nuclear power stations beyond 2025 which ran from January to March 2024. The consultation document contains the government response to the previous consultation, and the policy proposals the government intends to take forward in EN-7. | Midday on 3 April 2025 |
| Improving the energy performance of privately rented homes: 2025 update | Government is proposing to raise the minimum energy efficiency standard required of privately rented homes in England and Wales to the equivalent of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C by 2030. The proposed policy aims to deliver significant energy bill and carbon emissions savings in the sector to deliver against government’s statutory 2030 fuel poverty target and carbon budgets. | 2 May 2025 |
| Use of reasonable force and other restrictive interventions guidance: proposed amendments | DfE plans to update the use of reasonable force guidance (2013) and commence legislation which mandates schools to record and report each significant incident where force is used. This consultation seeks views on proposed revisions to the use of reasonable force and other restrictive interventions guidance. | 29 April 2025 |
| School accountability reform | Every child in England should have the opportunity to succeed, no matter their background. Our school system will drive high and rising standards, across every school and for every child, breaking down barriers to opportunity. This requires an accountability system that sets clear expectations, encourages improvement, and spreads excellence. | 28 April 2025 |
| Improving the way Ofsted inspects education | We want to know what you think about our proposed plans for inspecting schools and other settings where children and adults learn. This includes: early years, state-funded schools, non-association independent schools, further education and skills (FE and skills) and initial teacher education (ITE) | 28 April 2025 |
| Franchising in higher education | These proposals aim to protect public money by strengthening oversight of franchising in higher education. We propose that franchised delivery partners with 300 or more students must be registered with the Office for Students (OfS), for courses they deliver to be designated for student finance by the Student Loans Company. | 4 April 2025 |
| Putting fans first: consultation on the resale of live events tickets | This consultation aims to improve our understanding about ongoing problems in the ticket resale market and to seek views on potential proposals aimed at improving fairness for fans. We encourage all interested stakeholders to respond including: fans; ticketing platforms; the wider live events sector. | 4 April 2025 |
Other Consultations | ||
| Consultation | Description | Closing Date |
| Consultation on Ofwat's Enforcement Guidance | This document is guidance on Ofwat’s approach to enforcement and provides clarity to companies and other stakeholders as to what they should expect in relation to a breach of an obligation that Ofwat enforces. Enforcement is one of many tools that play an important role in holding water companies to account to ensure they are delivering the right outcomes for customers and the environment. This document explains Ofwat’s enforcement powers; our aims when we take enforcement action; and, in broad terms, the process we will follow. | March 24th, 2025 12:00pm |