Green paper

Both reports concluded that current methods for testing, certifying, and marketing construction products were not fit for purpose and that a significant proportion of products sat entirely outside the regulatory regime.

Now, as a result, in February twenty twenty-five, the government first published the Construction Products Framework Green Paper, which was broadly received positively across the industry.

Now, the White Paper, which was published on the twenty-fifth of February twenty twenty-six, is the next decisive step from that.

It was published alongside a separate consultation on the general safety requirement, which is the mechanism that will bring currently unregulated products into the regulatory regime.

There isn't enough democracy in our system.

When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007, almost his first act was to publish a Green Paper.

That's the discussion document that precedes a White Paper or the detailed outline of a policy.

The Green Paper was entitled, The Governance of Britain.

which took as its starting point the declining public trust in the democratic process.

Action is now needed across the breadth of the political system.

The Green Paper essentially argued that this was necessary to promote and restore trust in politics and our political institutions.

Evidence of a democratic deficit typically includes the shortcomings of the first-past-the-post system and its disproportionate representation of results.