RPC statements explaining missing impact assessments and opinions
A list of RPC statements explaining the absence of Impact Assessments (IAs) and/or RPC opinions alongside published legislative proposals.
Departments are required to submit IAs to the RPC in sufficient time to allow the RPC to produce its opinion in advance of the regulation being laid before Parliament. However departments sometimes submit IAs to the RPC too late for this to happen (in some cases after the Bill has already been laid before Parliament). In cases where we have not completed our scrutiny of an IA when legislation reaches Parliament, we publish a statement on our website explaining why no opinion is yet available (including whether we have yet received an IA for scrutiny or not). In such cases, we aim to complete our scrutiny as quickly as possible and publish the opinion as soon as possible after we issue it to the relevant department.
We had occasionally published such notes and committed to doing this routinely in November 2022 in response to a recommendation from the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - more here.
This page contains links to all such RPC statements, arranged by department.