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Among the changes introduced by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) are more proportionate subject access request (SAR) obligations, an obligatory complaints process, a renamed and re-empowered regulator, and an expanded ability to use automated decision making (ADM).

Employers with 250 or more employees will be encouraged to publish the steps they are taking to reduce their gender pay gap and support employees through menopause from April 2026.

The Department for Business and Trade has responded to a 2025 call for evidence on unpaid internships – and has, for now, decided against a legal ban.

Various research bodies have published pay data for the three months to the end of January 2026 as well as a look forward for the rest of 2026.

HMRC has announced new advisory fuel rates, from 1 March 2026, for employees using a company car.