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
Lee Scott MP (Conservative, Ilford North)
(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:
James Duddridge MP (Conservative, Rochford and
Southend East)
Ben Gummer MP (Conservative, Ipswich)
Brandon Lewis MP (Conservative, Great Yarmouth)
Mr Robert Syms MP (Conservative, Poole)
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
—
(a) appears to make an inappropriate use of delegated
legislation;
(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);
(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);
(d) secures a policy objective which could not be
satisfactorily secured by non-legislative means;
(e) has an effect which is proportionate to the policy
objective;
(f) strikes a fair balance between the public interest
and the interests of any person adversely affected by it;
(g) does not remove any necessary protection;
(h) does not prevent any person from continuing to
exercise any right or freedom which that person might reasonably
expect to continue to exercise;
(i) is not of constitutional significance;
(j) makes the law more accessible or more easily
understood (in the case of provisions restating enactments);
(k) has been the subject of, and takes appropriate
account of, adequate consultation;
(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;
(m) appears to be incompatible with any obligation
resulting from membership of the European Union.
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), Jessica Montgomery (Second Clerk), Sonia Draper (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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