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Written Question
Regulation
Thursday 21st June 2018

Asked by: Lord Smith of Clifton (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many regulatory agencies were operating in the UK in 2017–18; and what was the total annual running cost of those agencies.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

61 Arm’s Length Bodies with regulatory functions are listed in the Cabinet Office publication Public Bodies 2017. Many of these bodies also have non-regulatory functions. This publication does not include regulators operating as part of Government departments, outside central government, in devolved or local government, nor those which remain unclassified. The running cost of these bodies is set out in Public Bodies 2017, but this includes the cost of non-regulatory functions – the running cost of regulatory functions is not separately identified.

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Regulatory Agencies: Monitoring

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 26 January (HL4107), how the activities of regulatory agencies are monitored to ensure their effectiveness in the scrutiny of the economic and public sectors they supervise...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 04 Mar 2015
Regulatory Agencies: Monitoring

"My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that rather confused Answer as to the situation. During this Parliament there have been many complaints about regulators, including those dealing with care quality and police complaints. Who will guard the guardians? Would my noble friend agree with me that there should …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jun 2014
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jun 2014
House of Lords: Labour Peers’ Working Group Report

"My Lords, in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, for introducing this debate, I also record my regret that your Lordships will not have the benefit of hearing from Lord Grenfell, who co-chaired the working group. He is already sadly missed.

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 16 Jan 2014
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Jul 2013
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"My Lords, how many of our former nationalised public utilities, having been privatised, are now owned or largely controlled by nationalised industries abroad?..."
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