Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has a current call for evidence following the Corry report, April 2025.
The Corry Report concluded that “our regulatory system is not working as well as it should to support either nature recovery or economic growth”.
Dan Corry made recommendations, intended to “work to reduce the high-cost and low-nature scenarios we have been seeing. This will depend on progress made in a few key areas, including; reforming how regulators operate, with increased focus on place-based outcomes using constrained discretion”.
Anyone connected with the environmental permitting / waste sectors should think about submitting evidence, especially hard evidence as to what is happening in daily practice (especially environmental consultants with evidence as to regulatory delays).
I have posted my own forthcoming submission here (link to document attached) . I have posted my own forthcoming submission here. It includes some items which may also be of general interest, including sections on the unsatisfactory state of Regulatory Guidance (para.16), “Risk” and evidence-based regulation (para.24), the inappropriate use of the precautionary principle (para.33), end-of-waste (para.43) and the need for a proper appeals process – possibly in the First Tier Tribunal (para.55).
The deadline for evidence is 21 June 2026, and the call for evidence and submission portal is here