Regulatory Policy Committee
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The Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) produces opinions of impact assessments (IAs) and options assessments to help departments ensure that the evidence and analysis in them is sufficiently robust. We provide an independent opinion to assist ministerial decision making and parliamentary scrutiny of regulatory proposals. We publish these to assist parliamentarians and to ensure that they are available to external stakeholders. Government departments are expected to submit IAs to the RPC in time for the RPC to issue an opinion before the relevant legislation is laid before Parliament.
The Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill was introduced to Parliament on 17 December 2024.
The RPC is currently reviewing the IAs (which have not yet been published) and will produce an opinion when its scrutiny has been completed. This will be made available to the Government and Parliament and published on the RPCs website, when this