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Institute of Regulation"s Podcast

Institute of Regulation

Welcome to The Regulation Podcast – helping you to understand what regulation is all about, what it’s for and why it matters to you, to businesses, to organisations and to everyone.Listen to this new podcast show from the Institute of Regulation, packed full of insightful interviews with regulation leaders and experts and some energetic discussions on many aspects of regulatory theory and practice.

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Episode 33: Interview with New Zealand Deputy PM...

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2025/11/26

In this month's podcast, New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour MP talks to Institute of Regulation Chair Marcial Boo about regulatory reform in New Zealand, including their Regulatory Standards Act, just passed. David, who is also Minister for Regulation, says that regulation must maximise benefit and minimise cost. This includes the option not to regulate. He argues that regulation has often increased costs in response to infrequent risks: the fear of earthquakes increases burdens ...

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Episode 32: Regulating information and data protection

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2025/10/29

In this month's podcast, Institute Chair Marcial Boo talks to senior Information Commissioner's Office staff Emily Keaney and Angela Balakrishnan on how the ICO ensures our personal data are kept safe through the regulation of businesses and public bodies. Their discussion notes how good communications can encourage compliance, and how the ICO, like other regulators, sometimes has difficult conversations with those being regulated, using a range of regulatory tools to be effective. They also ...

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Episode 31: Should regulators commercialise?

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2025/09/29

This month's podcast from the @Institute of Regulation asks whether regulators should make money from their assets - their data and their knowledge of regulation and the law. Some might say not; regulators are often funded from public money. But @Richard South, Chief Executive of @TSO, and @Sam Walsh, a partner at @Deloitte, argue that there are legitimate ways for regulators to benefit from their assets in ways that can improve compliance and save public money. They recommend that regulators...

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29:53

Episode 30: The UK Government's Regulatory Policy...

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2025/07/24

In this month's podcast from the @ Institute of Regulation, our Chair @ Marcial Boo speaks to the Chair of the UK Government's @ Regulatory Policy Committee, @ Stephen Gibson. He talks about the RPC's role to help improve UK regulation, advising Parliament on the quality of the evidence and analysis in any new regulatory measures proposed by the government

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Episode 29: The General Medical Council

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2025/06/26

This podcast will facilitate a discussion with two senior figures from the General Medical Council: CEO and Registrar Charlie Massey and Director of Registration and Revalidation Una Lane. They will discuss how the GMC regulates and the challenges it faces, as well as wider issues of interest to other regulators. The audience of the Regulation Podcast is professional regulators and those interested in regulation. The Institute of Regulation has 60 corporate regulator members, around 40%...

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Episode 28: How do you set up a regulator from Scratch?

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2025/05/30

This month's podcast from the Institute of Regulation asks: how do you set up a regulator from scratch? It's a question relevant not only to the politicians, civil servants and staff establishing the new football regulator or the armed forces commissioner, but to everyone wanting regulators to work well. Discussing their experiences on the podcast are Sir Ian Kennedy, the first chair of the Healthcare Commission and the MPs' watchdog IPSA, and Natalie Prosser, founding CEO of the...

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Episode 27: Interviews with Institute of Regulation...

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2025/04/28

In this month's Regulation Podcast, Chair of the Institute Marcial Boo interviews the three winners of the inaugural Institute of Regulation Annual Awards: Mary Jervis of the Information Commissioner’s Office, winner of the award for Innovation in Regulation (sponsored by PA Consulting); Matt Westmore of the NHS Health Research Authority, winner of the Collaboration in Regulation Award (sponsored by Nous Group); and Tom Vincent of the Food Standards Agency, Winner of the Rising Star awa...

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Episode 26: Regulation stateside

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2025/03/27

President Trump and his team are making major changes to the US government. This includes in regulation, where he has signed an executive order that, for every new regulation, there should be 10 that are culled. To find out the latest, the Regulation Podcast from the Institute of Regulation has spoken to Professor Cary Coglianese, director of the Penn Program of Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading centre of academic expertise. Prof. Coglianese explains to Institute’...

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Episode 25: A Ministry of Regulation

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2025/02/27

This month's Regulation Podcast interviews Grainne Moss, CEO of the world's first Ministry for Regulation in New Zealand. Set up less than a year ago, the Ministry aims to improve the 200 regulatory systems in New Zealand, remove unnecessary rules and ensure that any new regulation is necessary and likely to work as intended. Grainne describes some of their early wins and the challenges ahead, recognising that regulation, alongside legislation and taxation, is one of any government's most imp...

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IoR Episode 24 Is there too much or too little...

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2025/01/29

This month's podcast focuses on an issue that every regulator grapples with. How do you know whether there is too much regulation or too little? And how do regulators get the balance right? Martin Stanley, former CEO of the Postal Regulator (now part of Ofcom), the Competition Commission and author of ‘How to Be a Civil Servant’, discusses how to spot too much regulation and what to do about it and the risks of too little regulation.  Unfortunately, there are no easy answers, but in this late...

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Episode 23: Regulating at Christmas

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2024/12/12

Many regulators work to an annual cycle, for the Advertising Standards Authority and the Food Standards Agency, December can be a busy month, with an increase in Christmas advertising and food consumption. This month's Regulation Podcast hears from Claire Forbes from the FSA and Matt Wilson from the ASA on how their regulators keep advertising honest and food safe.

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Episode 22: Using communications to regulate effectively

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2024/11/13

This month's podcast focuses on how regulators can use communications to tell people how to comply with the rules you're enforcing. We hear from two engagement experts who've worked in regulators, to understand how to get messages across to diverse audiences through varied external and internal channels. A must-listen for everyone working in communications in a regulatory context. Episode 22 of the Regulation Podcast is hosted by Marcial Boo, chair Institute of Regulation, with contribu...

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Episode 21 The Evolution of Regulatory Methodology

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2024/10/14

Regulation is evolving. No longer is it about command-and-control, tick-box inspections. And the risk-based, principled approach is changing too. Leading academics and practitioners now consider that regulators must think of their regulatory domain as a complex system with many actors. This has implications for how regulators approach their work, with a need for agility in their rules and their processes. Episode 21 of the Regulation Podcast in discussion with academic Martin de Bree from the...

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The Regulation podcast episode 20: Introducing the...

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2024/09/25

This month's podcast focuses on the regulation of behaviour in the film, music and other creative industries, where a new regulator has been created. It aims to protect everyone in those industries from bullying and abuse from powerful executives or famous stars. The regulator is the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA).

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Episode 19 – Understanding Regulatory Capture

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2024/07/30

The latest edition of The Regulation Podcast focuses on the concept of regulatory capture - what it is and how regulators can avoid getting caught - hearing the expert views of Dr Eva Heims of York University and Dr Justin Rex of Bowling Green University USA, drawing on case studies in their academic publications.A short guide to regulatory capture from Dr Heims is here: ‘Regulatory-capture-A-short-guide-for-practitioners.pdf’ She will also be contributing to our online workshop on regulatory...

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Episode 18: Regulators response to Artificial...

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2024/06/12

The latest Regulation Podcast focuses on AI and how regulators should respond to it. Two global experts, Prof. Julia Black of the LSE and Joey Conway of Deloitte, discuss what AI is, the problems and opportunities it brings, and how regulators should meet its challenges. The main recommendation to regulators is to learn more; and then to work with others. AI crosses sectors and national boundaries. Regulators must too. The Institute of Regulation is in contact with the UK's Digital Regulation...

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Episode 17: How to regulate vets

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2024/05/23

The latest half-hour episode of the Regulation Podcast explores how to regulate vets, with speakers from our member the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. It presents a case study of one sector, where the regulator is working within outdated legislation and with the consequences of Covid, where more people bought pets but more vets left the profession. Like other regulators, the RCVS has conflicting stakeholders with different demands, ranging from pet owners and farmers through to scienti...

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Episode 16: Regulation as a profession

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2024/03/27

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Episode 15: Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and...

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2024/02/23

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Episode 14 - Matthew Gill, Programme Director at the...

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2024/01/30

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