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United Kingdom

One UK-wide base with four national overlays. Privacy (UK GDPR, PECR, the DUAA 2025 uplift), consumer law (DMCC), advertising (CAP Code) and accessibility bind across the UK; professional and legal-services rules then differ by nation, which is why the Radar treats England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as distinct sub-jurisdictions.

UK-wide instruments → nation overlays (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) → regulator and profession rules.

United Kingdom UNITED KINGDOM

Sub-jurisdictions, live from the matrix

Law counts shown for the dental (healthcare) example; every cell opens the full verbatim stack.

All / federal 27 LAWS England 29 LAWS Wales 28 LAWS Scotland 29 LAWS Northern Ireland 28 LAWS

The instruments that do the damage

DMCC Act 2024

Direct CMA fining powers (to 10% of global turnover) since 6 April 2025; fake reviews and drip pricing banned outright. First fine: £4.2m, April 2026.

CMA
UK GDPR + PECR + DUAA 2025

Cookie consent and marketing rules, with PECR penalty caps rising to UK GDPR levels (£17.5m / 4%) as the DUAA phases in.

ICO
CAP Code

The ASA resolved 40,000+ complaints and secured 22,383 ad amendments/withdrawals in 2025, with AI monitoring scanning ~60m ads.

ASA
FSMA s.21 + COBS 4

Financial promotions need authorised approval; 19,766 promotions amended or withdrawn after FCA intervention in 2024.

FCA

Enforcement climate, cited

76,743
ICO data protection complaints in 2025/26, nearly double the prior year
ICO ANNUAL REPORT 2025/26
£14m
Capita settlement (Oct 2025), the ICO’s largest, after a breach affecting 6.6m people
ICO / MEASURED COLLECTIVE
150
CMA advisory letters in year one of direct consumer enforcement, plus 14 investigations
CMA, APR 2026
REGULATORS IN SCOPE
ICOCMAASA / CAPFCACQCSRATrading StandardsOfcom

Scotland and Northern Ireland carry distinct legal-profession regimes (Law Society of Scotland, SLCC; NI orders), which the matrix encodes: an identical firm shows different stacks in Edinburgh and Manchester.

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