Planning and Infrastructure Bill: RPC Statement of Lateness
RPC statement about the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government鈥檚 (MHCLG) late submission of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill Impact Assessment.
Update 6 May 2025
皇冠体育app RPC has now completed its scrutiny of the impact assessment. It has made its opinion available to the Government and has published it on the RPC鈥檚 website.
Statement 12 March 2025
皇冠体育app Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) produces opinions of impact assessments to help departments ensure that the evidence and analysis in them is sufficiently robust. We provide an independent opinion to assist ministerial decision making and parliamentary scrutiny of regulatory proposals. We publish these to assist parliamentarians and to ensure that they are available to external stakeholders. Government departments are expected to submit IAs to the RPC in time for the RPC to issue an opinion before the relevant legislation is laid before Parliament.
皇冠体育app Planning and Infrastructure Bill was introduced to Parliament on 11 March 2025.聽 On 31 January, MHCLG submitted IAs for RPC scrutiny.聽 皇冠体育app RPC is currently reviewing the IAs (which have not yet been published) and will produce an opinion when its scrutiny has been completed. This will be made available to the Government and Parliament and published on the RPC鈥檚 website, when this statement will be updated.