Effects of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage

Consultations from external agencies and central government 2021

• Cat and Dog Microchipping and Scanning in England
• Traffic Regulation Order Proposal for Colchester High Street
• Contracts for Difference (CfD) for low carbon electricity generation
• Review of 'Principles for managing level crossing safety'
• The Future Buildings Standard
• Proposals for changes to Gambling Commission fees
• Amendments to the Flood Re Scheme
• National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: consultation proposals
• Consultation for Walnut Tree Alternative Provision Academy
• TRAF/7476 - Experimental E-Scooter Trial for Cycle Tracks/Cycle Lane in Colchester
• Review of The Highway Code to improve safety on motorways and high-speed roads
• Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive: ensuring a stable scheme
• Protect Duty
• Changes to the payment process of schools’ business rates
• Review of the Service Reporting Code of Practice (SeRCOP) and Service Expenditure Analysis (SEA)
• Updates to the Prudential Code for capital finance in local authorities
• Updates to the Treasury Management Code
• Environmental principles
• Changes to permit parking in New Town and Christchurch
• Review of Essex Minerals Local Plan
• Waste Prevention Programme
• Ending the sale of new diesel buses
• Public review of UK Gigabit Programme
• Potential Improvements to the energy efficiency standards for privately rented non-domestic buildings.
• Introducing a performance-based policy framework in large commercial and industrial buildings
• New plan for Immigration
• Improving broadband for hard to reach premises
• Stockholm Convention UK implementation plan 2021
• Independent review of administrative law.
• Proposals on the treatment of aggregate removed during construction works
• The A120-A133 Link Road virtual exhibition
• Essex County Council’s broadband improvement programme
• Independent review of political violence and disruption
• Expansion of the National Fraud Initiative (NFI)
• Assessing new nuclear power station designs
• New guidance on safe use of council offices
• Reforming the public health system for the challenges of our times
• Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Clinical and healthcare waste transfer stations and treatment of healthcare waste
• Amending the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) to increase carbon savings on land, air and at sea
• Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP 10.2): proposals to update heat networks
• Prohibition of waiting, loading and stopping in certain areas of Essex
• Planning application regarding Colchester Quarry
• Planning application ESS/32/21/COL regarding Colchester Quarry
• Planning application for a new link road between the existing A120 and A133
• Planning application for an alternative provision education facility
• Formal consultation on draft funerals order
• Amendments to local audit fee setting arrangements
• £15 million provided to affected principal bodies
• Flexi-job apprenticeships: reshaping the role of apprenticeship training agencies
• Changes to permitted development rights for electronic communications infrastructure
• Policing inspection programme and framework 2021/22
• The COVID-19 vaccine in older adult care homes
• UK Gigabit Programme: Essex Public Review
• Traffic Regulation Order
• The UK Internal Market Act 2020
• Residential Property Developer Tax
• Consistency in household and business recycling in England
• Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging
• Consequential changes to permitted development rights
• Active Travel Consultation - Public Opinion and Travel Survey
• Traffic Regulation Order – Amendment No. 22 – East Mersea
• Community Health and Wellbeing Worker: employer demand scoping
• Domestic abuse support within safe accommodation: statutory guidance and regulations consultation
• Environmental permit competence requirements
• Residential Development - 1 The Avenue, Wivenhoe
• Local authority remote meetings: call for evidence
• Local Nature Recovery Strategies: how to prepare and what to include
• Renewables Obligation (RO): addressing electricity supplier payment default under the RO scheme
• Review of Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain function
• Accounting Code of Practice
• Business rates revaluation
• Surveillance camera guidance
• Planning Reform Programme survey
• UK hydrogen strategy consultations
• Hydrogen for heat: facilitating a grid conversion hydrogen heating trial
• Proposed St Marks Community Centre Consultation
• Bringing pets into Great Britain (GB)
• Water resources charge proposals
• New Energy Infrastructure
• Police and Crime Plan
• Reforms to UK data protection
• Vaccinations in health and social care
• Supporting defence infrastructure and the future of time-limited permitted development rights
• Making flexible working the default - GOV.UK
• Guaranteed Minimum Pension Fixed Rate Revaluation
• Future of transport regulatory review: zero emission vehicles
• Low carbon electricity
• Planning permission regarding Stanway Quarry - ESS/52/17/COL/28/8 and ESS/48/01/COL/24/20
• Heat network zoning
• Reforming how local authority school improvement functions are funded
• Social care common inspection framework review
• Review of the Fraud Compensation Levy ceiling
• Proposals to issue guidance about the application of the Market Rent Only option
• Banning conversion therapy
• Public Lending Right: Rate Per Loan 2020 to 2021 consultation
• Creating a Road Collision Investigation Branch (RCIB)
• Minimum Revenue Provision
• Business Rates Review
• Future Regulatory Framework Review
• Single-use plastic ban
• Civil Service Pension Scheme
• Introduction of tenant satisfaction measures
• Essex Bus Service Improvement Plan