England’s government has moved to strengthen enforcement of campus free-speech duties by creating a regulator-backed complaints system administered by the Office for Students (OfS). Under the proposal, academics and other university staff and visitors can lodge complaints with OfS for review and recommended remedies. The government also outlined significant financial consequences: providers that fail to protect free speech could face fines up to £500,000 or 2% of income, with the possibility of losing public funding in the most serious cases. OfS would be able to review incidents, require process changes, and direct compensation. The framework follows earlier controversy involving OfS fines, including the University of Sussex decision—an indicator that institutions may need to re-check policy language, training, and incident-handling procedures ahead of the new complaints pathway.