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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.

Department of Health and Social Care

The Draft Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (July 2021)

Tobacco and Vapes Bill (March 2024)

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy/Business and Trade

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill IA (January 2023)

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill IA (April 2023)

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill (September 2024)

Employment Rights Bill (October 2024)

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities/Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Renters (Reform) Bill IA (May 2023)

Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2024 (February 2024)

Renters’ Rights Bill (September 2024)

Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme) Regulations 2023 (September 2023)

The Official Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 (April 2024)

Water (Special Measures) Bill (September 2024)

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The Data Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023 – UK extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework IA (September 2023)

Department for Transport

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023 (November 2023)

Updates to this page

Published 16 October 2023