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- What safety-related interventions work most effectively and reliably to change industry behaviours, norms, and culture?
- What is the prevalence and impact of harm caused by online advertising content and its targeted delivery to internet users (such as fraudulent or misleading adverts, adverts for age restricted products or services, illegal products)?
- What more can be done to quantify and/or monetise the costs and benefits of building safety regulatory reform? Are there existing systems which are relevant here?
- What are the wider costs of a major building safety incident? What might the impacts be on undermining resident, insurer and bank confidence in the construction industry and in the built environment? And what are the consequences of this e.g.in terms of property valuations, or ability to secure a mortgage?
- How can different actors (e.g. Governments, tech companies, social media platforms, individuals etc.) mitigate these harms?
- What is the role of the regulation of buildings in a COVID-19 endemic world? What does an ‘endemic-prepared’ building look like?
- What novel research approaches can be deployed to help effectively measure the impact of online harm beyond typical quantitative survey methods? How could these be used to measure the wider impacts of Online Safety Legislation?
- What are the barriers – including regulatory barriers – to legal services trade with the UK’s overseas markets and what levers can help overcome these?
- In terms of product testing, what evidence exists for ways in which designers can effectively test and evidence whether combinations of products forming ‘systems’ are safe (e.g. using digital modelling)? What is proportionate and feasible? What requirements could be placed on manufacturers to support designers when putting a system together?
- How should we measure whether the overall system enables redress if things go wrong? Are there effective routes for residents/leaseholders/others to be compensated for historic and new defects? And for those who design/build defective premises to be held to account?
- How can policing use advances in robotics to reduce or remove the need for police officers to enter hazardous environments e.g., water, fire, electrical, natural disaster, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear)? Further, how can a seamless and secure operation be enabled in such environments?
- What methods for data fusion and linkage across datasets best retain the anonymity of identifiers?
- How does protection of intellectual property by patents, trademarks or design rights affect trade flows in across industries and business sizes?
- To what extent are intellectual property rights enforced where there is infringement, and how practices differ across sector and business size?
- What are the key considerations for sustainable (all three pillars) and lawful deployment of pavement robots?
- Detecting activity and exposing the identity of the perpetrator, or deterring illegal transactions, without disrupting legitimate commerce.
- How are tribunals affected by the policies and services of other government departments, and how can we better understand upstream decision-making processes? For example, regarding welfare policy.
- How should we measure the overall effectiveness of the regulatory regime? What evidence is there to show what an effective regulatory body looks like? How is the impact of regulatory interventions best evaluated, and what factors are key to it succeeding?
- How effective are industry mechanisms and frameworks in ensuring they resolve complaints and meet the wider regulatory needs of the legal services market and profession?
- What methods and policies could policing use to identify deepfakes rapidly and automatically, while retaining victim privacy?
- Opportunities and capabilities to intervene and mitigate risks.