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 and draft Orders under
the Localism Act 2011. Its full remit is set out in S.O. No. 141,
which was approved on 4 July 2007, and S.O. No.142.
Current membership
James Duddridge MP (Conservative, Rochford and
Southend East) (Chair)
Heidi Alexander MP (Labour, Lewisham East)
Mr David Anderson MP (Labour, Blaydon)
Andrew Bridgen MP (Conservative, North West Leicestershire)
Jack Dromey MP (Labour, Birmingham, Erdington)
Richard Fuller MP (Conservative, Bedford)
Lilian Greenwood MP (Labour, Nottingham South)
Rebecca Harris MP (Conservative, Castle Point)
Gordon Henderson MP (Conservative, Sittingbourne
and Sheppey)
John Hemming MP (Liberal Democrats, Birmingham,
Yardley)
Andrew Jones MP (Conservative, Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Ian Lavery MP (Labour, Wansbeck)
Andrew Percy MP (Conservative, Brigg and Goole)
Valerie Vaz MP (Labour, Walsall South)
The following members were also members of the committee
during the parliament:
Mr Robert Syms MP (Conservative, Poole)
Ben Gummer MP (Conservative, Ipswich)
Brandon Lewis MP (Conservative, Great Yarmouth)
Criteria against which the Committee considers
each draft order laid under section 7 of the Localism Act 2011
Paragraph (3) of Standing Order No.142 requires us
to consider any draft order laid under or by virtue of section
7 of the Localism Act against the following criteria:
… whether the draft order —
(a) appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated
legislation;
(b) has an effect which is proportionate to the policy
objective intended to be secured;
(c) strikes a fair balance between the public interest
and the interests of any person adversely affected by it;
(d) does not remove any necessary protection;
(e) does not prevent any person from continuing to
exercise any right or freedom which that person might reasonably
expect to continue to exercise;
(f) is not of constitutional significance;
(g) has been the subject of, and takes appropriate
account of, adequate consultation;
(h) gives rise to an issue under such criteria for
consideration of statutory instruments laid down in paragraph
(1)[1]
of Standing Order No. 151 (Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee))
as are relevant.
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 Parliament is at the back of this volume.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are James Davies
(Clerk), Amelia Aspden (Second Clerk), Ian Hook (Senior Committee
Assistant), and Pam Morris (Committee Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Regulatory Reform Committee, House of Commons, 14 Tothill
Street, London SW1H 9NB. The telephone number for general enquiries
is 020 7219 5469; the Committee's email address is regrefcom@parliament.uk
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