To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. (191264)

Information on the final regulatory impact assessments published between 1 January and 30 June 2007 can be found in Command Paper 7297, available at:

http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm72/7297/7297.pdf

For the Department for International Development, no regulatory impact assessments have been listed. Departments are in the process of identifying the final regulatory impact assessments published between 1 July and 31 December 2007. The Department for International Development did not conduct any regulatory impact assessments within this period.

From April 2008, all final impact assessments will be published on a central website.