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Policy ideas developed by citizens and reviewed by the Scrutinise community.
The Darzi Review (2024) found that diagnostic delays are the primary driver of the NHS treatment backlog. This proposal creates a statutory…
The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 enabled remote hearings for some proceedings but left criminal courts without a clear framework. The…
The Procurement Act 2023 created a transparency framework for government contracts but the implementation portal publishes data in formats t…
The Institute for Government has documented that bills subjected to pre-legislative scrutiny produce significantly better legislation with f…
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency was established in 2022 to fund high-risk, high-reward research outside normal government apprais…
The Ukraine war has demonstrated that modern warfare requires sustained industrial production at scale. The UK has no statutory mechanism to…
The UK's pre-COVID pandemic preparedness framework proved inadequate in 2020. Post-COVID reforms have been incremental. This proposal create…
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 added a secondary competitiveness objective to the FCA and PRA, but without any mechanism for Pa…
Streamlined planning for nationally significant infrastructure, reformed the Nature Restoration Fund to reduce development delays, and creat…
Created a specific offence of domestic abuse for the first time in Scotland, explicitly covering coercive and controlling behaviour — pre-da…
Introduced deemed consent (soft opt-out) for organ donation in Wales, making Wales the first UK nation to do so. Kidney Wales Foundation cam…
Required Welsh public bodies to consider the long-term sustainability of their decisions, established seven well-being goals, and created th…
Created a statutory right to roam over all land and inland water in Scotland, and established community right to buy provisions allowing com…
Banned almost all tobacco advertising and promotion in the UK, including print, billboards, and sponsorship of sport. ASH and the BMA campai…
Imposed new free speech duties on universities in England and Wales, banned the use of NDAs to silence harassment complainants, and establis…
Regulated CCTV use by public authorities, required destruction of innocent people's DNA profiles from the national database, and restricted…
Allowed all maintained schools in England to apply to become academies, independent of local authority control. Policy Exchange's 2007 repor…
Introduced a generational smoking ban — no one born on or after 1 January 2009 can ever legally be sold tobacco in the UK. The most signific…
Created the first statutory definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales, established the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, recognised child…
Made landlords legally responsible for keeping rented homes fit for human habitation throughout the tenancy. Karen Buck MP introduced this a…