To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. (191267)

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://bre.berr.gov.uk/regulation/ria/regulatory_reporting/index.asp.

For the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, one regulatory impact assessment has been listed.

Departments are in the process of identifying the final regulatory impact assessments published between 1 July and 31 December 2007.

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