...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...
...how they inform decisions about whether to revise or remove a regulation so as to avoid outdated or ineffective regulation remaining in force. While we have published opinions on over...
...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...
...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...
...is an indication of the quality of Government analysis. In the first two years of our dataset the number of rejected IAs increased very significantly from 18% to 40%, this...
...interact with similar organisations across the globe to enhance our knowledge and capability, especially in methodologies and approaches to regulation and scrutiny. Our international work during Covid travel restrictions Our...
...because they are ‘fit’ for different purposes. Domestic IAs are intended to inform regulatory decision-making whereas FTA IAs seek to provide a sense of thinking behind negotiations and the potential...
...consideration of alternative options to regulation, would allow independent input to add more value to the government decision-making process and ensure that regulation is happening only when necessary and is...
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...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...