Ofqual's regulatory efficiency report
An annual report on plans to keep our regulatory functions under review, fulfilling our requirement under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009.
Applies to England
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Ofqual is the independent qualifications and assessments regulator for England. It is our responsibility to secure quality and fairness in regulated qualifications, maintaining confidence in them and the outcomes they represent.
Good regulation of qualification will protect students and the public’s confidence in qualifications and also create a favourable environment for innovation and investment. We have duties to keep our regulatory functions under review, not to impose or maintain unnecessary regulatory burden, to have regard to the desirability of facilitating innovation, and to consider the desirability of promoting economic growth alongside the delivery of our objectives.
Ofqual aims to achieve the maximum impact toward our statutory objectives for the lowest cost to those we regulate. In pursuit of this, we seek at all times to keep regulatory activity proportionate, to reduce the administrative burden on regulated entities, and to improve how we work with other parts of government.
Our Annual report sets out the impacts Ofqual has had in 2024 to 2025. This report – formerly published under the title “Regulatory burden statement” – completes the picture by setting out our actions to improve regulatory efficiency in 2024 to 2025 and outlining our plans for 2025 to 2026.