Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds searchable IT archives (a) on Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU-sourced regulation and (b) employing the search term out of scope relating to changes to regulatory burdens that could not be reviewed due to its EU origin.

Regulatory Impact Assessments are the responsibility of the Better Regulation Executive (BRE) in the Department for Business and Trade. However, BRE does not hold information relating to the impacts of EU-sourced regulations.

Retained EU law is currently being reviewed by each Department to consider whether it should be removed, kept or reformed. Defra contributed information to the BRE on the cumulative impacts of the analysis of Impact Assessments for Defra regulations, for the purposes of the Business Impact Target. However, this information is not held centrally on a searchable IT platform or archive.