Asked by: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the difference between an impact assessment and a regulatory triage assessment when undertaken by a government department.
Answered by Lord Henley
An impact assessment is a means of using cost benefit analysis to inform policy decision-making and to ensure good practice in developing policy based on robust evidence.
Regulatory triage assessments were used in the previous Parliament to demonstrate that measures were eligible for ‘fast track scrutiny’ under the better regulation framework, and applied to either deregulatory measures or those with gross impacts under £1 million a year.
For this Parliament, regulatory triage assessments are no longer required. Some Departments may have retained the triage assessment as part of their internal process
Asked by: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take in response to the skill shortages and consequent unfilled vacancies highlighted in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Survey 2015 published on 28 January.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)
We are investing in apprenticeships to meet identified skill needs across all sectors. We are committed to reaching 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020 and will ensure they deliver the skills employers and the economy need for growth. We have also announced plans for ground-breaking reforms to technical and professional education, working in direct partnership with employers to ensure the new system provides the skills most needed for the 21st century. Together with creating 5 National Colleges, supporting a new network of Institutes of Technology and rolling out more degree and higher level apprenticeships, we are helping to equip people with the higher and technical level skills that are in demand.
Our aim is for all local areas to take a leading role in skills provision to ensure it is responsive to local economic priorities and devolution deals with areas around the country are a big step towards this ambition so that they can secure the training and skills that local employers need.