Question to the Leader of the House:
To ask the Leader of the House, what steps she is taking to help ensure Government impact assessments contain sufficient information and analysis for Members to scrutinise and suggest amendments to legislation.
The Government response to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee's report on Losing Impact: why the Government’s impact assessment system is failing Parliament and the public (HL Paper 116), was published on 15 December 2022, and is available on parliament.uk (https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/33276/documents/180120/default/).
The Government has taken a number of steps to ensure that best practice is followed by departments, for example:
Published impact assessments, including their date of publication, are available on the Parliament website (https://bills.parliament.uk/).
The Government is clear that Parliament should have the information it needs and that impact assessments should be published, where possible, when legislation is laid before Parliament.