How government values carbon has become an increasingly important part of its value for money analysis. At the RPC, we scrutinise carbon appraisal as we would other societal impacts - looking for proportionality, transparency and consistency.
The government is keen that all areas of the public sector understand the opportunities from using artificial intelligence (AI) and mitigate the potential risks. The RPC has been experimenting with using AI tools over the past few months to see how far these can help us with different aspects of our work.
Post-implementation reviews (PIRs) play a vital role in ensuring that regulations remain proportionate and effective. This blog provides an update on that latest position: the number of outstanding PIRs across government and the progress by the eight departments with the largest backlogs against the commitments that they made.
The report reflects on a very busy year with many changes for the RPC, including the completion of the transition to the revised Better Regulation Framework (BRF).
The RPC has published updates to its summaries of the ratings it gives impact assessments.
The RPC has published updates to its summaries of the ratings it gives impact assessments.
In April, our Blog on departments’ performance in undertaking regulatory evaluation noted that there was a backlog of 85 outstanding Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs), of which over 40% related to Department for Transport measures. The Blog also included commitments to …
As the RPC publishes new case histories guidance on monitoring and evaluation, Caroline Elliott, RPC member and chair of the RPC Methodology Sub-group, explains the importance of incorporating M&E plans as regulation is developed.
Stephen Gibson and Caroline Elliott of the RPC set out some of the issues that governments face in making policy decisions when peoples' lives are involved.
The RPC has today published information on outstanding Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) across government. Stephen Gibson, Chair of the RPC, commends departmental commitments to address the backlog.