The Regulatory Policy Committee has been in existence for 15 years – having originally been set up by the Labour government in 2009. To recognise this milestone, we have updated...
...tax. Additionally, she has experience as a Policy Adviser at the Office of Tax Simplification and is both a qualified barrister and charted accountant. Frances Warburton Frances is a senior leader and...
...with the departmental Better Regulation Units (BRUs) across Whitehall regularly. These meetings are to offer guidance on the Better Regulation Framework, consider methodological issues, advise departments on when RPC scrutiny...
...with the current Better Regulation system, and set out the key things that might be done to enhance the value of independent scrutiny in the future. Stephen explained that the...
...2021, we have published red-rated opinions on IAs for eight measures, compared to none between 2016 and 2020. The Impact Assessments we red-rated over the past 12 months (the most...
...that they submit high quality assessments on time and hope that the new Better Regulation Framework (BRF), which requires scrutiny at an earlier point in the policy-making process makes this...
...a result, at the start of each parliament, the Government sets a target for the total regulatory burden on business of new regulation over the life of that parliament and...
The Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) - the independent better regulation watchdog - provides an independent view on better regulation across government. We support the development of evidence-led regulation and facilitate...
...or suggest how to improve future regulatory decisions; it is also generally a statutory requirement. One of our earliest Blogs in 2021 reported that only 40% of PIRs were being...
...with almost three-quarters (72%) of IAs receiving one or more ‘weak’ or ‘very weak’ quality ratings. It also lists the 10 instances during the year where we had to issue...
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