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date	26/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Impact Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria are employed by departments when deciding whether or not to undertake an impact assessment on (1) primary egislation, (2) secondary legislation, and (3) other new policies.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL9007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Making Legislation sets out that an impact assessment is generally required for any primary legislation that is of a regulatory nature that affects the private sector and/or civil society organisation or public services.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance for government departments on undertaking these regulatory impact assessments is published online: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-regulation-framework" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-regulation-framework</a> This covers policies that have a regulatory impact on businesses or civil society organisations. The better regulation framework requires departments to produce a regulatory impact assessment if the annual net impacts of a measure are greater than £5 million a year.</p><p> </p><p>Where a policy does not have a regulatory impact over £5 million a year, departments should still consider undertaking an impact assessment in order to support Parliamentary scrutiny. The Chief Analyst in each department is responsible for providing direction on the production of these impact assessments. Where an impact assessment is not produced, Departments must still develop appropriate analysis to inform policy development and decision-making.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 11/07/2018 11:09:46 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

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registered interest
date	11/01/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place place in the Library a list of impact assessments carried out by Government departments in on each policy area or sector in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	122152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Individual Impact Assessments are published by regularly by Government departments. The Cabinet Office's assessments are regularly published on gov.uk. Guidance for government departments is published online: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/impact-assessments-guidance-for-government-departments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/impact-assessments-guidance-for-government-departments</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/03/2018 16:47:59 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

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registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Impact Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy on the publication of impact assessments in relation to (1) primary legislation and (2) secondary legislation.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL2022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government's policy is to develop and publish impact assessments for any proposals that have a regulatory impact, whether delivered through primary or secondary legislation. <br> <br>The form that these should take and the level and type of detail and evidence they provide should be proportionate to the scale of impacts and the stage of policy development.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/10/2017 17:26:00 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

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registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to produce impact assessments in respect of legislation introduced in Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	216298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Government policy in respect of legislation is set out in the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation published on GOV.UK. On page 110 this makes clear impact assessments are generally required where:</p><p>· legislation will impose or reduce costs on businesses or civil society organisations;</p><p>· impose or remove a new information obligation for the public sector;</p><p>· introduce any other administrative burdens or unfunded policy costs of £5 million or more (annual equivalent costs) on the public sector; or</p><p>· where there is an exchange or ‘transfer’ of costs or benefits from one group to another, even where it does not yield an overall net change in costs and benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 02/12/2014 14:12:49 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden