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We set standards for landlords and seek assurance that they are being met.
How to apply for orders to set up a private shellfishery or manage a natural shellfishery: powers to restrict fishing rights and issue licences.
How the Office for Product Safety and Standards contributes to the national regulatory landscape.
This page covers our approach to regulating landlords, including guidance on how we use and intend to use our powers, along with our Inspection plan.
How we assess issues of potential regulatory concern
This page sets out how the UK government’s smarter regulation programme seeks to reduce burdens on businesses and promote innovation and growth.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches to regulation we are taking during the COVID-19 outbreak.
This collection explains what we are currently doing to deal with problems at the organisations we regulate, and selected recent actions.
This series brings together all documents relating to DECC’s Better Regulation activities.
Concise, principles-based core competencies for regulators and people training as regulators.
The VMR sets out the statutory fees associated with various regulatory services provided by the VMD. The statutory fees and fee structure are implemented from 17 May 2024.
How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Who and what Ofqual regulates, how to apply to be regulated and what happens when you want to stop being regulated.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
What is involved in regulatory judgements and gradings
Applicants for Several and Regulatings Orders are required to submit a management plan for a minimum five year period.
Search a list of regulated professions to find out what qualifications or experience they require. Find contact details for regulators of those professions.
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