...with the current system is the increasing number of IAs received very late in the process and with requests for expedited scrutiny. This makes it harder for RPC input to...
Stephen Gibson today wrote to Lord Hodgson, Chair of the House of Lords' Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, offering the RPC's formal response to the recommendation in the SLSC report Losing...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...interested parties to share their ideas and views on live issues to help shape the future regulatory landscape. Our posts should not be interpreted as government policy, intent, or news....
...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...
...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...