Issue - items at meetings - Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report on Transforming Regulatory Enforcement

Issue - meetings

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report on Transforming Regulatory Enforcement

 

 

Meeting: 23/02/2012 - Worcestershire Shared Services Joint Committee (Worcs Shared Services Partnership was dissolved on 31st March 2016. A new partnership was agreed on 1st April 2016 Worcs Regulatory Services Board) (Item 36)

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Minutes:

The Committee considered a report which highlighted the Government’s views on the ‘Better Regulation’ agenda which had potential for direct impact particularly on the operation of some of the Trading Standards elements of service delivery.

 

The Chairman drew Members’ attention to the revised recommendation.

 

Mr. S. Wilkes, Business Manager, Worcestershire Regulatory Services   introduced the report and in doing so informed the Committee that the Government had published its responses to the Transforming Regulatory Outcomes consultation that took place earlier in the year.  The Government’s response stated that there was evidence of good practice of regulators and business working together on compliance but there were too many areas where the enforcement of regulation was heavy-handed, inefficient, overly prescriptive and culturally risk-averse.

 

Members’ attention was drawn to the Key Elements of the Government Response and Worcestershire Regulatory Services examples of good practice as detailed in the report.

 

The Government wished to reinforce the use of the Regulators Compliance Code and in its review of regulators it intended to check on how far they had applied the Code.  Regulators would be asked to give more prominence to the Code in publications and websites.

 

RESOLVED that the principles identified in the report be adopted and included in future Service Plans.