...how they inform decisions about whether to revise or remove a regulation so as to avoid outdated or ineffective regulation remaining in force.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...
...significant progress being made. While there is still some way to go, this represents an important step in improving attention to evaluation. Toward the end of March 2025, the Chancellor...
...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...
...in this report to £5,629.0 million net), the cumulative total for the parliament to date is an increase in direct costs to business of £4,445.2 million net. This compares to...
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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...