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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 Departments 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.