Engagement on our Strategy and Regulatory Principles

Overview

The CAA Strategy is available to read or download from this page. It sets out our mission, vision and purpose, as well as providing an overview of how we intend to achieve them.

Our Strategy is agile; it provides the foundations to continue to successfully deliver our core regulatory roles, as well as position ourselves to tackle new challenges and opportunities, such as enabling recovery from Covid-19 and improving environmental performance.  It will also give us the flexibility required to respond to unforeseen shocks or seize new opportunities to deliver on our vision.  

Our Strategy will be delivered through our annual business planning process. It is designed to be both ‘always on’ and open to change as and when required, and therefore does not have a time period attached to it. We will update it when needed, such as when our work programmes on strategic focus areas develop, or when we think it is time to refresh our strategic direction.

Alongside the Strategy, we have articulated a set of five regulatory principles that underpin our approach to regulation.  These are a set of principles we are guided by  when carrying out our work to improve aviation and aerospace for consumers and the public.  

As well as changing the nature of our Strategy, we are changing the way we engage on it too, to ensure we can regularly hear from those who care about our work; our new online form means stakeholders and the public can share their views on what should be in future iterations of this Strategy at their convenience, and we can analyse and draw on trends in the responses in real time to inform our work and future iterations of the Strategy.

We look forward to our Strategy being strengthened through your insights.

What happens next

We intend to update our Strategy when our context dictates it is necessary, and will not be able to respond to all feedback received – however, we commit to considering all feedback received as we do make changes to our Strategy. Responses will not be published but will be used internally to inform our future strategy development. 

Please ensure you are only using the form on this page to comment on our Strategy and use other established communication channels for other queries.  For more detail on how best to contact us for other queries, please see this link.