...to be more conscientious in carrying PIRs out in order to inform decisions over whether regulations should be retained, revised or replaced. Again, we argue in a blog post for...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...that we judged over half of the assessed areas for those departments as inadequate to support decision-making. And big differences in the quality of IAs as first submitted Where we...