Government Consultations

2024

• 08 March 2024 – Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024: consultation
• 07 March 2024 – Consultation on Reforms to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013
• 07 February 2024 – Government resilience: extreme weather inquiry
• 17 January 2024 – Call for evidence: Smarter regulation and the regulatory landscape

2023

• 06 December 2023 – Consultation on creating a Smokefree Generation and Tackling Youth Vaping
• Department for Business and Trade, UK product safety review, 24th October 2023
• Department for Business and Trade,  New approach to the fire safety of domestic upholstered furniture in the UK, 24th October 2023
• Health and Safety Executive
• Planning Directorate
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 7th June 2023
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 31st March 2023
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 17th March 2023
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 14th March 2023
• Welsh Government
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, 20th January 2023

2022

• Health & Safety Executive
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Government Equalities Office
• Home Office
• Reforming our fire and rescue service
• Health & Safety Executive Building Safety Regulator – Operational Standards Rules Consultation Response
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings – NFCC Response
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on the new safety regime for occupied higher-risk buildings – NFCC Response
• Government Equalities Office – Open Consultation – Improving disabled people’s access to let residential premises: reasonable adjustments to common parts, a new duty
• Home Office – Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing (EEIS) Consultation
• Reforming our fire and rescue service – Government white paper
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings
• Informing the health and wellbeing of the fire and rescue sector

2021

• PAS 8672 -Built Environment – Framework for competence of individual Principal Contractors and Designated Individuals working under Organizational Principal Contractors – Specification (CLOSED)
• Safety Case Principles consultation (CLOSED)
• PAS 8673 – Built environment – Framework for competence of individual Building Safety Managers and nominated individual Building Safety Managers – Specification (September 2021)
• (Revised) Equality Impact Assessment Toolkit consultation (CLOSED)
• Gender Diversity Toolkit consultation (CLOSED)
• Neurodiversity Toolkit consultation (CLOSED)
• Talent Management Toolkit consultation (CLOSED)
• Job Description and Person Specification for the role of a firefighter (CLOSED)
• Fire Investigation Fire Standard (CLOSED)
• Equality of Access to Services and Employment for Emerging Migrant Communities (CLOSED)
• Equality of Access to Services and Employment for people living with dementia (CLOSED)
• EDI Data Toolkit (CLOSED)
• Building Safety Levy, Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (October 26th)
• Coaching and Mentoring National Portal (CLOSED)
• NFCC Direct Entry Scheme consultation (CLOSED)
• NFCC Supervisory Leadership Development Programme consultation (CLOSED)
• Building Bulletin 100: Fire Safety Design in Schools – NFCC Response (August 17th)
• Residential property developer tax: HM Treasury (July 22nd)
• Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) Consultation (July 19th)
• UK Product safety review: Call for evidence NFCC Response (CLOSED: June 17th)
• NFCC Workforce Good Practice Framework and Maturity Models (CLOSED: May 21st)
• Welsh Government Safer Buildings in Wales Consultation – NFCC Response (April 13st)
• MHCLG National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: Consultation proposals – NFCC Response (March 26th)
• Collecting Equality & Diversity data (CLOSED: May 14th)
• Charter for Social Housing Residents – Social Housing White Paper – NFCC Response (March 21st)
• NFCC Mentoring Agreement (CLOSED: February 22nd)
• NFCC Considerations for a coaching and mentoring scheme (CLOSED: February 22nd)
• MHCLG: Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure: NFCC response (February 1st)
• RICS Draft Guidance Note – Valuation of properties in multi-storey, multi-occupancy residential buildings with cladding, 1st edition – NFCC Response (January 25th)
• MHCLG Architects Act Consultation NFCC Response (January 22nd)
• MHCLG Domestic Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Consultation – Proposals to Extend Regulations (January 11th)

2020

• MHCLG Raising accessibility standards for new homes – NFCC Response (December 1st)
• Equality of access to services and employment for black people (CLOSED: January 2nd)
• NFCC: Equality of Access to Services and Employment for Neurodiversity (November 30th)
• Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Consultation The Future of the Planning System in England – NFCC Response (October 29th)
• MHCLG Planning for the Future Consultation – NFCC Response (October 29th)
• Draft Scottish Advice Note: Determining the fire risk posed by external wall systems in existing multi-storey residential buildings – NFCC Response (October 24th)
• Fire Investigation Competency Framework – Second edition (informal consultation) (CLOSING DATE: November 30th)
• Fire and Rescue Authorities becoming statutory consultees in the development management process – NFCC Response (October 21st)
• NFCC EDI Project – Equality of Access to services and employment for the LGBT communities (Closing date: November 16th)
• NFCC Leadership project – Coaching and Mentoring Ethical Code (CLOSED: November 16th)
• NFCC Leadership project – Coaching and Mentoring Agreement (CLOSED: November 16th)
• Home Office Fire Safety Order – NFCC Response (October 12th)
• Pre White Paper: Welsh Government Building Safety Position Statement (September 30th)
• Review of operational firefighter apprenticeship standard (CLOSED: August 24th)
• Call for Evidence: Progress in remediating dangerous cladding: Public Accounts Committee (July 2nd)
• BS 8210 Facilities maintenance management: Code of practice – Letter (June 26th)
• BS 8210 Facilities maintenance management: Code of practice – NFCC response (June 26th)
• Interpretation of the apprenticeship funding rules for On-call Firefighters (CLOSED: June 12th)
• Review of fire investigation code of practice (June 8th)
• Review of the ban on the use of combustible materials in and on the external walls of buildings: MHCLG (May 22nd)
• Call for Evidence: Cladding: progress on remediation: HCLG Select Committee (May 18th)
• Guide to the Design of Balconies and Terraces, Draft for Public Consultation (March 3rd)
• Fire Safety: Risk Prioritisation in Existing Buildings – A Call for Evidence (February 26th)
• The Future Homes Standard: 2019 Consultation on changes to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) and Part F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations for new dwellings (February 7th)
• Inclusion strategy consultation (CLOSED: January 10th)
• Succession planning toolkit consultation (CLOSED: January 10th)

2019

• Drafts for Public Consultation for PD 7974-5 Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Part 5: Fire and rescue service intervention (Subsystem 5) (December 27th)
• Safety Rules for the construction and installation of lifts – Particular applications for passengers and goods passenger lifts – Part 76: Evacuation of persons with disabilities using lifts Draft for Public Consultation (December 18th)
• Approved Document B: Sprinklers and other fire safety measures in high-rise blocks of flats (November 28th)
• Raising the Bar (Interim Report)- Improving competence, building a safer future The Competence Steering Group (October 31st)
• Electric vehicle charging in residential and non-residential buildings (October 8th)
• Informal consultation on the review of fire investigation code of practice (September 30th)
• Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 Call for Evidence (Home Office, August 1st)
• Building a safer future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system: MHCLG (August 1st)
• Code of Practice for the design, installation, commissioning & maintenance of evacuation systems for use by FRS in buildings containing flats or maisonettes (July 21st)
• Technical review of Building Bulletin 100: Design for fire safety in schools (May 31st)
• NFCC Apprenticeship strategy (April 26th)
• NFCC Leadership Core Learning Pathway (February 25th – April 5th)
• Approved Document B: Consultation response (March 1st)

2018

• Fire safety: clarification of statutory guidance (Approved Document B) (October 2018)
• Banning the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise residential buildings: Welsh Government (September 2018)
• Building Standards Compliance and Fire Safety: Making Scotland’s buildings safer for people (September 2018)
• Banning the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise buildings (August 2018)
• Amendments to statutory guidance on assessments in lieu of test in Approved Document B (Fire Safety) (May 2018)
• Electrical Safety in the Private Rented Sector (April 2018)
• Proposed Social Housing (Automatic Fire Suppression Systems) (Scotland) Bill (April 2018)
• Revised draft of Forestry Commission Ops Note 40 (April 2018)
• HMICFRS Inspection Programme and Framework Consultation (March 2018)
• DEFRA: Proposals to tackle crime and poor performance in the waste sector and introduce a new fixed penalty for the waste duty of care (March 2018)
• National Framework for the Fire and Rescue Service in England (February 2018)