The RPC’s response to the Smarter Regulation White Paper
...there needs to be a clear mechanism for the Government and Parliament to take this into account in deciding whether to proceed with the policy – for example the Danish...
...there needs to be a clear mechanism for the Government and Parliament to take this into account in deciding whether to proceed with the policy – for example the Danish...
...the Earl of Lindsay and Jon Geldart (Director-General of the Institute of Directors). All gave their support to the changes to the Framework and the RPC’s role as the independent...
...for the previous two years, the total increase for the parliament to date is £14.3 billion. This compares to the Government’s target of keeping costs constant and not increasing the...
...key opportunity for interested stakeholders to share their views about how the current BRF is working for CSOs, and ways in which government can improve IAs to better ensure that...
...regulations introduced by government have not been subject to independent scrutiny and are not included in the Business Impact Target – a point that we made in our Blog post...
...to understand if departments had improved their impact assessments (IAs) in the interim. Stephen flagged that in 2023, the RPC issued ‘Initial Review Notices’ for around 40% of Final IAs,...
...making it happen. We are therefore keen to help government in developing this target, ensuring that it does not lead to perverse incentives and offering our expertise in independently verifying...
...PIR. Independent scrutiny of monitoring and evaluation plans in impact assessments would help to ensure rigorous, useful and proportionate arrangements are in place to track the outcome of the regulations...
...how the total regulatory cost burden compares to the government’s Business Impact Target (BIT). Our opinions are made available to ministers proposing regulatory measures and to Parliament when scrutinising proposed...
...plans early on in the policy making process. This will in turn improve the quality and effectiveness of their regulations by ensuring they think about the intended impacts and how...
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