Research and analysis

Health and Care Bill 2021: RPC Opinion

Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on DHSC's impact assessment on Health and Care Bill 2021

• From: Regulatory Policy Committee
• Published: 7 September 2021

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RPC Opinion: Health and Care Bill 2021

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The impact assessments (IAs) are now fit for purpose after being revised in response to the RPC’s initial review notice. The IAs do not provide EANDCB, BNPV or NPSV but give an overall indication of impacts in line with Scenario 2 of the RPC’s primary legislation guidance.

No EANDCB figure is provided at this stage but the IAs now provide a sufficient qualitative assessment of the impacts on businesses. Throughout the IAs the Department makes commitments to producing quantified impact assessments for secondary legislation “as appropriate”, if and when enabling powers are used.

For each of the relevant proposals, reference is made to possible impacts on small and micro businesses (SMBs). The Additional Measures IA identifies possible impacts on SMBs of the proposals relating to data sharing, provider selection, medicines registries, hospital food standards, food information for consumers, water fluoridation and reciprocal healthcare arrangements for rest of world countries. The IA would be improved by providing better evidence on the number of SMBs potentially affected.

Link to IAs to follow.

Published 7 September 2021