Policy papers and consultations

A consultation on implementing minimum service levels for fire and rescue services during periods of strike action.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 February 2024

• Minimum service levels for fire and rescue services (accessible)

  Foreword As Home Secretary, public safety is my foremost priority and…

• Impact assessment (accessible)

  Title: Minimum service levels (MSL) consultation IA number: HO0429 RPC…

This document sets out the broad framework within which the Oil and Pipelines Agency (OPA) operates.

• From: Ministry of Defence and 1 others
• Updated: 8 February 2024

UK’s first critical imports and supply chain strategy aims to build resilient supply chains and safeguard critical imports

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 17 January 2024

• Critical imports and supply chains strategy (HTML version)

  Foreword We live in a rapidly changing world which is seeing the system we…

Code of practice for the exercise by police of statutory powers of entry, search and seizure.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 December 2023

We are seeking views on proposals to introduce system-wide reform that will strengthen fire and rescue services in England.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 December 2023

Consultation on proposed changes to the Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England) Order 2006.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 8 September 2023

We are consulting on Public Service Pensions: Firefighters’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2023, to enact the second phase of the remedy in the McCloud/Sargeant cases.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Information about the commencement of the Fire Safety Act and how it affects Responsible Persons and others.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 24 February 2023

Provides details of our proposed inspections of fire and rescue services for 2023/25. It concerns the third full cycle of inspection of all the fire and rescue services in England.

• From: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
• Updated: 23 December 2022

This document provides details of HMICFRS’s inspection programme and framework for fire and rescue services, commencing January 2023.

• From: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
• Updated: 23 December 2022

The standards, best practice guidelines and approaches that are required to protect UK government assets.

• From: Cabinet Office and 2 others
• Updated: 2 December 2022

Contractual documents and supporting information for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 29 November 2022

We are seeking views on new proposals to implement the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 recommendations on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 30 August 2022

We are seeking views on new proposals to support the fire safety of residents who would need support to evacuate in an emergency situation.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 30 August 2022

The Home Office is undertaking a consultation on Public Service Pensions: Firefighters’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022, to enact the first phase of the remedy in the McCloud / Sargeant cases.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 21 June 2022

We are seeking views on how to assess and prioritise fire safety risks and how to better understand the complexity of building risk to ensure that an appropriate level of safety is achieved in existing buildings.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 1 June 2022

Consultation proposal on options to reduce the trigger height for sprinkler provision in new high-rise blocks of flats in England, alongside other fire safety measures.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 1 June 2022

The government‘s response to the Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities Select Committee’s reports on building safety: remediation and funding.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 16 May 2022

A review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 1 April 2022

The government's response to a report published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 17 March 2022