| | Working with departments and regulators to simplify and modernise existing regulations
| Working with departments to improve the design of new regulations and how they are communicated
| Working with regulators (including local authorities) and departments to change attitudes and approaches to regulation to become more risk-based
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Systems reform |
Domestic
| Administrative Burdens reduction programme.
www.betterregulation.gov.uk website.
Programme for reducing data requests on front-line public sector workers.
| Embedding Impact Assessment
Review of Consultation Policy
Commitment to publish total costs of new regulations from April 2008.
Code of Practice for government guidance.
Improved communications around new regulations introduced on Common Commencement Dates.
Regulatory budgets
| Mergers of national regulators/inspectorates
Reviews of Independent Regulators
Regulators Compliance Code
Statutory Duty on Regulators to Address Burdens
Clarifying regulatory priorities for local authorities
Establishing LBRO
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EU |
25% EU Admin burdens target
Davidson Review for reducing burdens in stock of EU legislation
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Ongoing work to improve Impact Assessment in the EU
| Building on relationship with other members states to promote overall improvements in European regulatory reform
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Interventions around
specific policy areas
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Domestic | Consumer Law Review
Review of Impact of Health & Safety regulations on low-risk businesses
Support for Flanagan Review of Policing
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Ongoing engagement between BRE staff and departments on the development of new domestic and EU policy
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Retail Enforcement Pilot |
| EU | Will potentially follow from EU Admin burdens work
| PRA clearance of new regulations |
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BRE's communications programme is cross-cutting and spans all elements of the programme.
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