The Department for Business and Trade’s Regulation Directorate (RD) is at the heart of the work in supporting the government’s growth mission. It aims to:
* Reform the stock of existing regulations to minimise bureaucracy and modernise regulation on the statute book.
* Ensure the pipeline of regulation is necessary and proportionate, enabling analysis and scrutiny of new regulatory proposals from government departments, via the Better Regulation Framework.
* Ensure independent regulators deliver the right outcomes, with DBT driving a coordinated approach across government.
* Improve economic regulation by ensuring it supports growth and investment, promotes competition, works for consumers, and enables innovation.
When delivered effectively, regulation and the work of regulators plays a vital role in protecting consumers, the environment and setting the right frameworks for businesses to thrive. By enabling better regulation, we will ensure we maintain our high standards but can flex and adapt to the new technologies and challenges that the next few decades will inevitably bring.
* Leading the delivery through to publication of the statutory Assimilated Law Reports which are laid before Parliament every 6 months, until June 2026.
* Gathering and tracking the use of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (REUL Act) powers and the reform of assimilated law more generally across HMG, and conducting policy analysis of this.
* Coordinating case law monitoring across HMG in the context of assimilated law (formerly retained EU law).
* Development of guidance for HMG departments, as well as future planning and communications for the approach to REUL Act post-June 2026, ensuring continuity of any required functions.
* Analysing and presenting complex policy issues to senior officials, Ministers, and key stakeholders, providing clear recommendations and supporting potential legislative change where necessary.
* Contributing to a dynamic Directorate which works at the heart of government with teams within DBT, across HMG, and with devolved governments to deliver the government's core Growth Mission.
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