...Harvard University[1]. Stephen will be researching the regulatory framework used by Government departments and sectoral regulators in the UK to introduce new regulations and how it could be more effective....
...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...
...The RPC welcomes the new Framework which includes many changes that we have advocated: Independent scrutiny at an earlier stage in the policy development process to allow us to comment...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Regulation Framework in allowing us to inform Parliamentarians of the robustness of the evidence supporting regulatory proposals. In agreement with the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee report Losing...
...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...
...how they inform decisions about whether to revise or remove a regulation so as to avoid outdated or ineffective regulation remaining in force.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...