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
Stephen McPartland MP (Conservative, Stevenage) (Chair)
Bim Afolami MP (Conservative, Hitchin and Harpenden)
Andrew Bridgen MP (Conservative, North West Leicestershire)
Douglas Chapman MP (Scottish National Party, Dunfermline and West Fife)
Mr Simon Clarke MP (Conservative, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Julie Elliott MP (Labour, Sunderland Central)
Kirstene Hair MP (Conservative, Angus)
Simon Hoare MP (Conservative, North Dorset)
Graham P Jones MP (Labour, Hyndburn)
Helen Jones MP (Labour, Warrington North)
Mr Kevan Jones MP (Labour, North Durham)
Conor McGinn MP (Labour, St Helens North)
Jeremy Quin MP (Conservative, Horsham)
Karl Turner MP (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East)
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
Committee reports are published on the publications page of the Committee’s website and in print by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet at www.parliament.uk/regrefcom.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Ben Sneddon (Clerk), and Jonathan Olivier-Wright (Senior Committee Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Regulatory Reform Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 5777; the Committee’s email address is: deregcom@parliament.uk
Published: 23 April 2018