...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...
...and OAs. We continue to urge the Government to prioritise evaluation and PIRs. Other departments could usefully follow Defra’s lead with internal guidance to policy teams and regular reporting. To...
...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...
...taken into account when regulations are introduced. We the RPC exist to provide independent scrutiny at key stages of this process. Independent challenge and support of the sort we provide...
...would extend the benefits of independent scrutiny to increasingly important areas of government policy. It would do more to ensure that an evidence-based approach is taken to assessing the potential...
...the SLSC point out, IAs and RPC opinions are meant to be produced in time to inform both ministerial decisions and parliamentary scrutiny. As Stephen and Andrew reported in their...
...of regulations, we want to reiterate that it is essential that impact assessments contain good M&E plans, to ensure that arrangements are in place to support the post-implementation review and...
...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...
...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...
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