Closed consultation

FS Sector Strategy: Regulatory Environment - Cross-Cutting Reforms

From:
HM Treasury
Published
15 July 2025

We are analysing your feedback

Visit this page again soon to download the outcome to this public feedback.

Summary

A consultation on ensuring the financial services regulatory environment is effective, proportionate, and in line with the government’s ambition on regulation.

This consultation ran from
to

Consultation description

This consultation forms part of the government’s Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. It covers a number of changes the government is proposing in relation to the overarching regulatory framework for financial services.

These proposals are designed to ensure that the framework is effective and proportionate and in line with the government’s overall ambition on regulation. This includes:

  • Shorter statutory deadlines for the regulators to determine key applications.
  • A requirement for the regulators to produce long-term strategies with clear goals and priorities.
  • Rationalisation of how various legislative “have regards” feed into regulator policymaking.

Documents

Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy Regulatory Environment - Cross-Cutting Reforms Consultation

PDF, 227 KB, 19 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email digital.communications@hmtreasury.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Updates to this page

Published 15 July 2025

Sign up for emails or print this page

Related content