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<p>The Government response to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report on Losing Impact: why the Government’s impact assessment system is failing Parliament and the public (HL Paper 116), was published on 15 December 2022, and is available on parliament.uk (<a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/</a>).</p><p>The Government has taken a number of steps to ensure that best practice is followed by departments, for example:</p><ul><li>providing, and regularly updating, centralised guidance through the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-making-legislation</a>.</li><li>the Parliamentary Capability Team in the Cabinet Office provides training on managing parliamentary work to civil servants of all departments and grades.</li></ul><p>Published impact assessments, including their date of publication, are available on the Parliament website (<a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/</a>).</p><p>The Government is clear that Parliament should have the information it needs and that impact assessments should be published, where possible, when legislation is laid before Parliament.</p> |