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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Corbett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date the regulatory impact assessment on the Criminal Records Bureau was commissioned; and when it will be published. [138047] Mr. Charles Clarke: [holding answer 13 November 2000]: A compliance cost assessment (a forerunner of current regulatory impact assessments) was carried out in 1996 in advance of the introduction of the Police Bill. A further regulatory impact assessment is to be conducted to provide an up-to-date evaluation of the implications for those applying for certificates of the fees to be charged by the Criminal Records Bureau. The exercise will be carried out before regulations are made which prescribe such matters as the level of fees, in advance of the Bureau becoming operational in around July 2001. Officials will contact a cross-section of affected organisations before the end of November in order to seek information about those organisations and about the implications for them of the charging of fees. This information will be collated in the regulatory impact assessment document which it is hoped it will be possible to make public for wider consultation before the end of February. I shall write to my hon. Friend as soon as the detailed timetable, which is the subject of continuing discussions, has become clearer.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

357 c87-8W; 138047

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Criminal records Fees and charges Vetting Criminal Records Bureau Impact assessments

Link

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