Our plans for new and updated guidance
Our guidance is designed to help and support you to comply with the laws we regulate, and to help people understand their information rights.
As well as detailed formal guidance and Codes of Practice, we also produce checklists, toolkits and position papers. We create all our guidance with you in mind, making it as simple as possible for you to use.
Grouped by the topics below, you’ll find information about all the guidance that we’re working on. You’ll see what we’re developing and when we expect to publish. We’ll update this information regularly so that you can confidently track a product as it develops.
Because of the Data (Use and Access) Act, we have started work on new guidance. This means we’ve had to deprioritise and withdraw some of the planned guidance you will have seen previously on this web page.
We may restart some of the withdrawn guidance projects in the future. If this happens details will be republished on this page.
Guidance stages explained
Drafting – During this stage we pull together all relevant information and create a structured draft.
Public consultation/call for views (optional) – Usually we carry out a public consultation or call for views before we complete the guidance. To understand more about how and when we do this, you can read our consultation policy.
Redrafting (following consultation) – We make changes to the draft guidance to clarify issues and meet the needs of our audience.
Withdrawn – Occasionally we decide to not proceed with a guidance project. If so, we’ll mark it as withdrawn and remove it when we next update this page. If we decide to revisit an issue, we add a new entry to this page.
Published – Guidance is final and available on the website