...the Earl of Lindsay and Jon Geldart (Director-General of the Institute of Directors). All gave their support to the changes to the Framework and the RPC’s role as the independent...
...for the previous two years, the total increase for the parliament to date is £14.3 billion. This compares to the Government’s target of keeping costs constant and not increasing the...
...publishes guidance and case histories, on the methodological approach to IAs. It will be important to continue to develop these to ensure environmental impacts are robustly and consistently considered. Including...
...key opportunity for interested stakeholders to share their views about how the current BRF is working for CSOs, and ways in which government can improve IAs to better ensure that...
...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...
...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,...
...making it happen. We are therefore keen to help government in developing this target, ensuring that it does not lead to perverse incentives and offering our expertise in independently verifying...
...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...
...both. The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2025 showed a £153 million benefit in carbon savings. The Warm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025 included £70 million in carbon costs,...
...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...