The Regulatory Reform Committee
The Regulatory Reform Committee (previously the Deregulation
and Regulatory Reform Committee) is appointed to consider and
report to the House on draft Legislative Reform Orders under the
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. Its full remit is
set out in S.O. No. 141, which was approved on 4 July 2007.
Current membership
Mr Robert Syms
(Conservative,
Poole)
(Chair)
Heidi Alexander (Labour,
Lewisham East)
Mr David Anderson (Labour,
Blaydon)
Andrew Bridgen (Conservative,
North West Leicestershire)
Jack Dromey (Labour,
Birmingham, Erdington)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour,
Nottingham South)
Ben Gummer (Conservative,
Ipswich)
John Hemming (Liberal Democrat, Birmingham, Yardley)
Gordon Henderson (Conservative,
Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Andrew Jones (Conservative,
Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Ian Lavery (Labour,
Wansbeck)
Brandon Lewis (Conservative,
Great Yarmouth)
Andrew Percy (Conservative,
Brigg and Goole)
Valerie Vaz (Labour,
Walsall South)
Criteria against which the Committee considers
each draft legislative reform order
Paragraph (3) of Standing Order No.141 requires us
to consider any draft legislative reform order against the following
criteria:
… whether the draft legislative reform order
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| (a)
| appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated legislation;
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| (b)
| serves the purpose of removing or reducing a burden, or the overall burdens, resulting directly or indirectly for any person from any legislation (in respect of a draft Order under section 1 of the Act);
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| (c)
| serves the purpose of securing that regulatory functions are exercised so as to comply with the regulatory principles, as set out in section 2(3) of the Act (in respect of a draft Order under section 2 of the Act);
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| (d)
| secures a policy objective which could not be satisfactorily secured by non-legislative means;
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| (e)
| has an effect which is proportionate to the policy objective;
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| (f)
| strikes a fair balance between the public interest and the interests of any person adversely affected by it;
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| (g)
| does not remove any necessary protection;
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| (h)
| does not prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which that person might reasonably expect to continue to exercise;
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| (i)
| is not of constitutional significance;
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| (j)
| makes the law more accessible or more easily understood (in the case of provisions restating enactments);
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| (k)
| has been the subject of, and takes appropriate account of, adequate consultation;
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| (l)
| gives rise to an issue under such criteria for consideration of statutory instruments laid down in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)) as are relevant;
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| (m)
| appears to be incompatible with any obligation resulting from membership of the European Union.
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Publications
The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications
of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet
at www.parliament.uk/regrefcom. A list of Reports of the Committee
in the present Session of Parliament is at the back of this volume.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are John Whatley
(Clerk), John-Paul Flaherty (Inquiry Manager) and Liz Booth (Committee
Assistant). Assistance was also provided for this report by Neil
Caulfield (former Inquiry Manager).
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Regulatory Reform Committee, Delegated Legislation Office,
House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number
for general enquiries is 020 7219 2837; the Committee's email
address is regrefcom@parliament.uk.
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