The Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) exists to ensure that regulation promotes growth, is properly evidence-based, and does not harm investment or international competitiveness. A regulatory environment that supports investment in...
...difficulty is disentangling cause and effect. Regulations don't operate in a vacuum. The rental market in 2019 to 2024 was also shaped by the pandemic, interest rate rises, changes to...
...revised. This is the purpose of Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs). Done well, they should: lead to a better understanding of the regulation and the problem it was meant to address...
...with the departmental Better Regulation Units (BRUs) across Whitehall regularly. These meetings are to offer guidance on the Better Regulation Framework, consider methodological issues, advise departments on when RPC scrutiny...
...5 April. They were asked about the RPC’s work, how the current Better Regulation system is operating and what they would like to see from the reforms the Government is...
...The most common weakness was insufficient identification and analysis of credible non-regulatory options. The Government’s review of the Better Regulation Framework (BRF) is considering ways to focus policymaking on these...
...Government department. Members come from a variety of business, consultancy and academic backgrounds. We are the most recent appointees, starting our roles in March 2024. The application process was very...
...the then Defra Secretary of State, Therese Coffey made a commitment in Parliament to address the backlog by the end of 2024. We are pleased to confirm, as per data...
...for us to publish a summary of the impacts up to abolition of the BIT (29 August 2023). Between 17 December 2022 and 29 August 2023, we published formal opinions...
...evidence and analysis. As Kevin Hollinrake MP noted in Parliament: "the RPC's opinion can better inform ministers' decisions at an earlier stage on whether proceeding with regulation is the right...