Delivering High Quality Impact Assessments
Delivering High Quality Impact Assessments
National Audit Office, London
29th January 2009
Impact Assessments are required for all Government interventions that impose or reduce costs on businesses, the third sector or the public sector. Government is committed to conducting formal impact assessments of the need for and likely impact of new regulations. This National Audit Office report has found that scrutiny of proposed legislation is strengthening and that the standard is better than it was, but one fifth of assessments still did not include any quantified data to assess costs or benefits. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) has introduced new guidance, templates and training to improve the quality of impact assessments and, as a result, impact assessments have clearer presentation of results, better planning for implementation, and more quantification of costs and benefits. But wide variation remains between the best and worst impact assessments.
There are two documents for this report:
Found
2 reports: