HC Deb 27 January 2003 vol 398 c596W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the Regulatory Impact Assessments produced by her Department since 1 May 1997; and if she will make a statement. [88836]

Ms Hewitt

[holding answer 16 January 2003]: Regulatory Impact Assessments were first introduced in August 1998. The Cabinet Office, in a bi-annual Command Paper, publishes lists of all Departments' Regulatory Impact Assessments, and their predecessors, Compliance Cost Assessments. Copies of the Command papers are available in the Libraries of the House.

Regulatory Impact Assessments published by my Department since July 2002, for which a Command Paper is yet to be published, are as follows:

  • The Offshore Installations (Emergency Pollution Control) Regulations 2002
  • The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • Wireless Telegraphy (Licences charges) Regulations 2002
  • The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002
  • The Directors' Remuneration Report Regulations 2002
  • The Maternity and Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • The Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002
  • The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2002
  • The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002
  • Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill
  • The Flexible Working (Procedural Requirements) Regulations 2002
  • The Community designs (Fees) Regulations 2002
  • Communications Bill
  • Communications Bill—Media Ownership Rules
  • Communications Bill—TV and Radio Services
  • Communications Bill—Spectrum Trading
  • Communications Bill—Newspaper Mergers
  • Communications Bill—Setting up OFCOM as a Single Regulator
  • Enterprise Act
  • Enterprise Act—Competition Reform
  • Enterprise Act—Consumer Protection
  • Enterprise Act—Insolvency Provisions
  • EC Directive 1999/44/EC on certain aspects of the sale of Consumer Goods and Associated Guarantees
  • The Electricity (Approval of Pattern or Construction and Installation and Certification) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • The Measuring Instruments (EC Requirements) (Electrical Energy Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • The Gas (Calculation of Thermal Energy (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2002
  • Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2002