Links
The following are links that you may find to be useful:
Impact Assessments
Impact Assessments are used to assess the costs, benefits and impact of new regulations.
The Impact Assessment Toolkit provides more detailed information in how to complete an Impact Assessment and where you can find the information you need to capture within it.
Online training is also available providing an overview of the process, explaining its key components to those new to Impact Assessments or those who want to know how it has changed. The training is modular, enabling you to return to key sections at any time to refresh your memory. It also contains a case study where the process is applied to a fictional policy proposal.
Direct-gov
Produced by the Central Office of Information, Directgov brings together the widest range of public service information and services online as well as providing information from across UK government departments for the public.
Business link
Businesslink provides advice and information for new and small businesses, identifying business support services from across the government, voluntary and private sectors.
BRE
The Better Regulation Executive has been tasked by the Prime Minister to minimise bureaucracy for businesses and front-line staff in the public sector and to help charities and the voluntary sector to make a greater contribution to society.
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
The Department brings together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry, including responsibilities for productivity, business relations, energy, competition and consumers, with the Better Regulation Executive (BRE), previously part of the Cabinet Office.
Admin Burdens Calculator
The Admin Burdens Calculator is a web-based tool used to model the administrative burden of new regulations or the impact of simplification measures. This also acts as the public face of the UK's administrative burden data.
https://www.abcalculator.berr.gov.uk/
Standard Cost Model (SCM) Online Training
The SCM Training has been created to provide an overview of the SCM and explain its key components. The training is modular, enabling you to return to key sections at any time to refresh your memory, and contains two case studies, the first applying the SCM to a fictional new regulation and the second to identify the most effective way to simplify an existing regulation.