Growth placed at the heart of regulators’ remit alongside new measures to boost scrutiny and transparency

Business Secretary sets out new stronger duty for regulators to ensure they better prioritise helping businesses go for growth New public dashboard will allow businesses to review how regulators are performing and give direct feedback to government, holding regulators to account Independent reviews to scrutinise key regulators and recommend improvements A major shake-up of accountability […]
Scrutiny report about radioactive waste disposal is published

The annual report describes the regulatory scrutiny of Nuclear Waste Services’ (NWS) ongoing programme of work and the advice the regulators provided during 2024 to 2025. NWS is tasked with developing a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the UK’s most hazardous radioactive waste. Geological disposal means permanently disposing of the most hazardous types of […]