Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government's Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010-2019

Kate Ollerenshaw

doi:10.1093/pa/gsad013

Burden Reduction: An Evaluation of Statutory Instruments in the UK Government's Regulatory Off-setting and Business Impact Target Initiatives 2010-2019

Kate Ollerenshaw

Schools of Law and Education

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This article analyses Statutory Instruments passed between 2010 and 2019 to evaluate the embeddedness of the UK Government’s regulatory off-setting and Business Impact Target initiatives. It begins by outlining the origins of those initiatives and their scope, technical details and compliance mechanisms. After describing the methodology for the analysis, it reports results showing that a range of exclusions and exemptions limit the number of Statutory Instruments covered by the initiatives, that the intensity with which burden reduction is pursued declines over time and that the largest savings are incidental rather than being motivated by a desire to reduce burden.

Original language	English
Article number	gsad013
Pages (from-to)	798-820
Number of pages	23
Journal	Parliamentary Affairs
Volume	76
Issue number	4
Early online date	9 Jun 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad013
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2023

Keywords

Better Regulation
Business Impact Target
Burden Reduction
Regulatory Off-setting
Regulatory off-setting
Impact assessment
BIT
Burden reduction
Better regulation
Business impact target

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