...to focus on the evidence and analysis relevant to support final decision-making. 2. Scrutiny before parliamentary approval - to confirm the estimate of costs and plan for monitoring and evaluation...
The Government has today launched the reformed Better Regulation Framework (BRF). This was announced in May 2023, as part of the Government’s plans to reform its approach to managing regulation....
...‘red-rating’ IAs on a wider range of issues – specifically the impacts on: trade (to support UK competitiveness); greenhouse gas emissions (to support the path to ‘Net Zero’); or competition...
...when it starts its scrutiny. They also recommend that we do more to communicate to Parliament when an IA has been ‘red-rated’. We recognise the value of our opinions to...
...the pre-consultation stage, although early scrutiny made little difference to our rating of cost-benefit analysis (88% compared to 86%). We continue to argue for mandatory early scrutiny of IAs to...
...wide range of stakeholders. We look forward to working with the new Government to achieve improvements to the effectiveness of the BRF in support of their growth agenda and welcome...
...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...
...transparency and accountability that this provides will help to strengthen adherence to the Framework. We have therefore decided to publish a spreadsheet that summarises the key information across all of...
...to meet their objectives. A second spreadsheet has been added to the existing webpage. One of our previous Blogposts explained why PIRs are key to a smarter regulatory framework and...
...and includes suggestions to the new Government on how to make our role even more effective. Over the past 15 years, the RPC has issued over 4,600 formal and informal...
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