Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 8
8
Both the regulators and Defra consider the complexity of the legislation under which they operate...
Conclusion
Both the regulators and Defra consider the complexity of the legislation under which they operate to be a barrier to improvement.13 The Environment Agency told us that tackling some of the obsolete legislation is a way to it to unblock some of the difficult problems it experiences.14 It described how its frontline staff try to reconcile a whole range of different conflicting agendas which it finds challenging. Natural England told us the legislation can feel restrictive or narrow and be a constraint.15