To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. (191273)

The Department has published two final (regulatory) impact assessments ((R)IA) since March 2007. These relate to the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, and the Pensions Bill which are currently before Parliament. A copy of each of these (R)IAs is available in the Library.

Information on published final (regulatory) impact assessments can be found in Command Papers available at:

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

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