To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many regulatory impact assessments his Department has conducted in the last 12 months. (191274)

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 then Department of Trade and Industry, 23 have been listed.

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) was created on 28 June 2007. Departments including BERR 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 assessments will be published on a central website.