The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition had been planning to regulate the work of those seeking to influence government long before the Fox saga.
Too many farmers had wasted time and energy reacting to false scare stories about how the Obama administration was planning to regulate farm dust or ban farmers' children from helping out on the land, he suggested (I paraphrase).
It's planning to regulate the P2P lending sector, something that is said to be welcomed by the major players and could provide the legitimacy required to bring this alternative form of financing into the mainstream and really give the banks a run for their money.
Further off, there are plans to regulate the sale of nitric and hydrochloric acids.
The coalition is planning to introduce laws to regulate lobbyists, and to give constituents the power to force a byelection if an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing.
The Swiss Federal Banking Commission, which regulates the banking sector, is planning to introduce stringent new measures targeted specifically at the country's two biggest banks, Credit Suisse and UBS.
The government is currently planning to regulate the relationship between the Commons and a reformed Lords by relying on existing unwritten conventions and laws known as the Parliament Acts that limit the power of the Lords.
Hoping to protect privacy in an age when a fingernail clipping can reveal a person's identity, federal officials are planning to overhaul the rules that regulate research involving human subjects.
Later this month, the Government is due to bring forward plans to regulate the lobbying industry.
Although the policy has a fairly detailed to-do list for NOAA researchers, it's vague on exactly how it plans to regulate the industry—just hinting, for example, that it will prefer "only native or naturalized species in federal waters" unless other species are proved to be safe to the ecosystem.
