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Regulatory Impact Assessments

The Government are committed to ensuring that regulations are necessary, give effective protection, balance cost and risk, are fair and command public confidence. In accordance with this, we require departments to produce and publish RIAs for all regulatory proposals likely to have an impact on business, charities or voluntary bodies. My honourable friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office has today presented to Parliament a Command Paper listing RIAs published between 1 January and 30 June 2005. Copies of those listed have been placed in the Library. This is the 23rd such Command Paper.