...with the current system is the increasing number of IAs received very late in the process and with requests for expedited scrutiny. This makes it harder for RPC input to...
...RPC to publish data on departments’ performance on PIRs in order to strengthen accountability and create stronger incentives for compliance. Today we are releasing that information for the first time...
...public office-holder including all those who are elected or appointed to public office, and all people appointed to work in the Civil Service, local government, the police, courts and probation...
...how the total regulatory cost burden compares to the government’s Business Impact Target (BIT). Our opinions are made available to ministers proposing regulatory measures and to Parliament when scrutinising proposed...
...The RPC welcomes the new Framework which includes many changes that we have advocated: Independent scrutiny at an earlier stage in the policy development process to allow us to comment...
...regulations introduced by government have not been subject to independent scrutiny and are not included in the Business Impact Target – a point that we made in our Blog post...
...Regulation Framework in allowing us to inform Parliamentarians of the robustness of the evidence supporting regulatory proposals. In agreement with the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee report Losing...
...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...
...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...how they inform decisions about whether to revise or remove a regulation so as to avoid outdated or ineffective regulation remaining in force.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...
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