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Private Inspection Mergers

Hampton Review Mergers

The Hampton Review recommended a number of regulatory mergers, which all together will reduce 31 regulators to 7 by April 2009. The relevant Departments have the lead in the detailed planning of mergers, but the BRE is overseeing their work.

The immediate goals of the merger project are to:

• ensure that Departments are on track with their merger planning, and that the mergers envisaged fully meet the Hampton Review's recommendation;
• ensure that consultation documents, on the new Consumer and Trading Standards Agency, and on the mergers within the DEFRA family, meet the Hampton recommendations, and give the new organisations remits and functions that are in accordance with the BRTF and Hampton principles;
• explore legislative options through the Better Regulation Bill, for Government to reconfigure regulators' structures and guidance;
• produce, by September 2006, a document containing detailed plans for all mergers.

The Better Regulation Bill consultation contains a section on the merger power, and ways in which it could be used.

• Better Regulation Bill consultation