To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. (191266)

Information on the final regulatory impact assessments (RIAs) published between 1 January and 30 June 2007 can be found in ‘Regulatory Impact Assessments for 2007’ (CM7297) which is available at:

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

For the Department, 12 have been listed.

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

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