Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 29
29
Rejected
Expand the Regulatory Innovation Office to resolve business regulatory conflicts and ensure coherence.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Regulatory Innovation Office should be expanded to act as a clearing house for regulatory conflicts and give businesses a place to report conflicting regulations. We recommend that this expanded Regulatory Innovation Office sits within the Cabinet Office and is resourced appropriately to carry out this expanded role. We recommend that the Government publishes a list of the series of projects that the single lead regulator model will be tested through and commits to publishing an assessment of the new model’s impact. A minister from the Department for Business and Trade should help oversee the Regulatory Innovation Office and should be tasked with presenting for resolution examples of regulations from either government departments or regulators, which conflict or which are incoherent, given the growth objectives. (Recommendation, Paragraph 123)
Government Response Summary
The government stated there are no current plans to change the department or scope of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), directly rejecting the recommendation to expand its role, relocate it to the Cabinet Office, and enhance ministerial oversight.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
17.1. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) will play an important role in ensuring that regulation keeps pace with innovation so it supports rather than restricts fast-growing industries such as biotechnology, AI, and autonomous vehicles. There are not current plans to change the Department or scope of the RIO. 17.2. In addition, across the sector plans that were published in June (Clean Energy Industries, Advanced Manufacturing, Professional Business Services, Digital & Technologies, Creative Industries), we are setting out more than 30 regulatory changes to drive growth in priority areas. These reforms will also contribute to our commitment to cut the administrative costs of regulation by 25% by the end of this Parliament.