Research and analysis

Summary of published RPC Opinions

The attached spreadsheets contain the ratings in published RPC opinions since 2020

• From: Regulatory Policy Committee
• Published: 24 May 2024
• Last updated: 6 August 2024 — See all updates

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Summary of RPC Opinions on IAs since 2020

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Summary of RPC Opinions on PIRs since 2020

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The Regulatory Policy Committee assesses the quality of Government Impact Assessments (IAs) and Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs). We publish our opinions on IAs/PIRs when the IA/PIR is published.

Since late 2020 (when we started using a new format), RPC opinions have offered views on the overall fitness-for-purpose of the IA, whether the Department’s estimate of the direct costs of the measure and the assessment of the impacts on small and micro businesses are fit for purpose or not; and ratings for the quality of the assessment of: ‘rationale and objectives’, ‘cost-benefit analysis’, ‘wider impacts’, and ‘monitoring and evaluation’ (these are rated either ‘good’, ‘satisfactory’, ‘weak’ or ‘very weak’).

Similarly, PRC opinions on PIRs comment on the overall fitness for purpose as well as quality ratings for ‘monitoring’ and for ‘evaluation’ (using the same rating scheme).

While these ratings and quality assessments are already in the public domain, they sit in individual RPC opinions, and it is therefore difficult to see trends in the data and to compare the performance of different departments. We have therefore decided to make available the attached spreadsheets that summarise the key information across all of our published IA and PIR opinions since we started using the current format.

We will update these spreadsheets periodically.

Published 24 May 2024
Last updated 6 August 2024 + show all updates

1. 6 August 2024

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2. 24 May 2024

   First published.