What government is doing
What government is asking about.
- 01the questionyou are here
- 02the announcementpress releases and news
- 03the commitmentpolicy papers
- 04the instructionguidance and regulation
- 05the accountwhat government discloses
A consultation is government asking before it decides. Responding is the cheapest way anyone outside government changes an outcome — but only until the deadline, and the deadlines are easy to miss.
More about this source
This page collects every consultation and call for evidence GOV.UK lists as open, plus everything that closed or had its outcome published during 2026. One entry each, with its dates, department, topic and a link to every document published alongside it — searchable, and grouped however you find useful.
This is stage one of What government is doing, the question asked before anything is decided. What follows it: what government announces, what it says it will do, what it tells you to do and what it discloses about itself. The checks made on all of that are in Whether it worked — the forecast, the verdict on it, the review years later and the independent audit.
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Every consultation, searchable.
Search the text, narrow by department or topic, or group the results. Each entry expands to the documents published alongside it.