RPC holds launch event for the Better Regulation Framework

The Regulatory Policy Committee held an event at the House of Lords on Wednesday 24th January to promote the new Better Regulation Framework and the RPC’s role in it. Around...
The Regulatory Policy Committee held an event at the House of Lords on Wednesday 24th January to promote the new Better Regulation Framework and the RPC’s role in it. Around...
...would extend the benefits of independent scrutiny to increasingly important areas of government policy. It would do more to ensure that an evidence-based approach is taken to assessing the potential...
...to date there is little incentive to conduct them well or make best use of them If evidence is to be available to evaluate a regulatory measure properly, information needs...
Stephen Gibson (RPC Chair) and Andrew Williams-Fry (RPC Member) gave evidence to the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) for its inquiry into the Government’s use of regulatory...
...to understand if departments had improved their impact assessments (IAs) in the interim. Stephen flagged that in 2023, the RPC issued ‘Initial Review Notices’ for around 40% of Final IAs,...
...there needs to be a clear mechanism for the Government and Parliament to take this into account in deciding whether to proceed with the policy – for example the Danish...
...PIR. Independent scrutiny of monitoring and evaluation plans in impact assessments would help to ensure rigorous, useful and proportionate arrangements are in place to track the outcome of the regulations...
...taken into account when regulations are introduced. We the RPC exist to provide independent scrutiny at key stages of this process. Independent challenge and support of the sort we provide...
...prior to full committee review. Depts have 15 working days to revise their assessment and have the opportunity to meet the secretariat to discuss the comments in the IRN. Following...
...plans early on in the policy making process. This will in turn improve the quality and effectiveness of their regulations by ensuring they think about the intended impacts and how...
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