UK businesses to get sandboxes, growth duty expands under regulatory reform bill
By Patricia Figueiredo ( May 13, 2026, 12:10 GMT | Insight) -- UK businesses can expect regulators to be given stronger duties to support economic growth and new powers to temporarily relax rules for testing AI under legislation announced Wednesday. The proposed Regulating for Growth Bill would create cross-economy regulatory “sandboxing powers” and strengthen regulators’ duty to promote economic growth. The speech on upcoming legislative priorities also confirmed plans for digital ID legislation and advancement of a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.UK businesses can expect regulators to be given stronger duties to support economic growth and new powers to temporarily relax rules for testing artificial intelligence and other technologies under a bill announced on Wednesday in the government’s new legislative agenda....
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