...discrimination or bias. The fourth, Accountability, requires that: holders of public office are accountable to the public for decisions and action and must submit themselves to the scrutiny necessary to...
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....
...total number of overdue PIRs has fallen from over 80 in April to 47 today, including 4 PIRs that have newly become overdue. This represents a significant improvement. However, it...
...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...
...‘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...
Stephen Gibson today wrote to Lord Hodgson, Chair of the House of Lords' Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, offering the RPC's formal response to the recommendation in the SLSC report Losing...
...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...