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Departmental Responsibilities

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many reviews of regulation (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have conducted or commenced since July 2007; and in which areas. (215619)

Information on the number of reviews of regulation that the Department and its agencies have undertaken in the last year is not held centrally. However, the Department for Work and Pensions constantly keeps its regulation under review across policy and operations. For example the Department has undertaken a thorough review of statutory sick pay and is taking forward reforms identified in the independent review of the private pensions regulatory framework.

The Health and Safety Executive has reviewed, for example, the Factories Act 1961; the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963; and the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations 1989. Work has also started to review the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996.