HC Deb 04 July 2002 vol 388 c516W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of his Department have been employed in its Regulatory Impact Unit in the past five years; and if he will make a statement. [65964]

Mr. Ingram

As a non-regulatory Department, the Ministry of Defence does not have a dedicated Regulatory Impact Unit. Five years ago the MOD's focal point was a civilian in the MOD Procurement Executive (now Defence Procurement Agency). From early 1999 issues relating to regulatory impact have been addressed by two civilian members of staff, as part of their wider remit to assess the potential impacts of EU legislation on the Ministry of Defence.