Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department holds searchable IT archives (a) of 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 EU origin.

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

Retained EU laws are currently being reviewed by each Department to consider whether it should be removed, kept or reformed.

The Department for Transport’s Better Regulation Unit records all Regulatory Impact Assessments conducted by the Department. This includes a breakdown of those Regulatory Impact Assessments that implement domestic policy, as well as international and European obligations.

The Department for Transport does not hold searchable archives relating to employing the search term out of scope relating to changes to regulatory burdens that could not be reviewed due to EU origin.