...is an indication of the quality of Government analysis. In the first two years of our dataset the number of rejected IAs increased very significantly from 18% to 40%, this...
...significant progress being made. While there is still some way to go, this represents an important step in improving attention to evaluation. Toward the end of March 2025, the Chancellor...
...our second PIR blog in December 2025, we saw an encouraging reduction in outstanding PIRs from over 80 to 47. It is disappointing that progress seems to have stalled as...
...– business leaders consistently make the same point: the RPC’s independent scrutiny of regulation matters. "The Regulatory Policy Committee continues to play a key role in holding government to account...
...to be more conscientious in carrying PIRs out in order to inform decisions over whether regulations should be retained, revised or replaced. Again, we argue in a blog post for...
...in this report to £5,629.0 million net), the cumulative total for the parliament to date is an increase in direct costs to business of £4,445.2 million net. This compares to...
...as an increase in IAs submitted late by departments (in some cases where the legislation was already before Parliament). We will continue to engage with departments to try to ensure...
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...sit in individual RPC opinions, it is therefore difficult to see trends in the data and to compare the performance of different departments. The Government’s White Paper on Smarter Regulation...
...how they inform decisions about whether to revise or remove a regulation so as to avoid outdated or ineffective regulation remaining in force. While we have published opinions on over...