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Old 23-11-2022, 23:07   #4626
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Re: Britain outside the EU
The legacy of Rees-Mogg's BEIS reign hangs over British business like the darkest of clouds.
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Flagship UK ‘Brexit freedoms’ bill slammed as impact study ‘not fit for purpose’

Government’s own regulatory experts give ‘red’ warning over way cost to small businesses was assessed

Ministers were accused of failing to carry out a thorough assessment of the impact on small businesses of the bill, under which several thousand EU laws would automatically expire at the end of 2023 unless they had already been reviewed, amended, renewed or scrapped.

The bill was promoted by former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg as a means of cleansing the British statute book of unnecessary EU regulation but has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare in Whitehall, requiring hundreds of civil servants to sift through EU laws.

An impact assessment by Rees-Mogg’s former department was subject to a scathing analysis by the Regulatory Policy Committee, an advisory body sponsored by BEIS to consider the impact of regulation.

The RPC report, published on Monday, concluded bluntly that the BEIS assessment was “not fit for purpose”.

It said: “The department has not sufficiently considered, or sought to quantify, the full impacts of the bill. In addition, the impact assessment does not include a consideration of the impact on small and micro businesses consistent with better regulation.”

The report continues that BEIS had included a range of statistics in its report but that its impact assessment had “incorrectly interpreted” some of the figures relating to sectors of the economy where many smaller companies operate.

“The quality of different analytical areas in the impact assessment are all either weak or very weak, meaning that they provide inadequate support for decision-making,” the RPC said.

It also accused ministers of making policy in the dark: “We are not assured that the impact of changing or sunsetting each piece of REUL will be calculated or understood under proposals currently in place.”
https://www.ft.com/content/84e1f637-...6-22ed66277fb8
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