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The Retail Enforcement Pilot (REP) seeks to demonstrate early practical delivery of the Hampton agenda in terms of reducing administrative burdens on business by improving the delivery of regulatory enforcement services. As such it is a key regulatory reform project within the Better Regulation Executive's programme to embed the Hampton strategy across both national and local regulators.
REP provides a framework for collaborative working between local authorities and national regulators which is intended to:
The regulatory domains covered by REP include trading standards, health and safety, environmental health, alcohol licensing and fire safety. Through the use of mobile technology and data sharing, regulators work jointly across these domains and share the intelligence generated. By analysing this, regulators are able to assess the competence of businesses in how they manage risk. This allows regulators to act flexibly by differentiating between businesses and so target their efforts away from well run businesses and onto inherently high risk or poor performing businesses, and illegal traders.
The savings in regulatory capacity made from reducing routine visits to low risk and compliant businesses can then be redirected into alternative means of increasing compliance which focus on helping businesses, in particular small and start–up businesses, such as business advice, guidance and support.
The Better Regulation Executive is rolling REP out to around 70 authorities nationwide during 2007/08. Such a diverse sample will help to extensively test the methodology. This should provide robust evidence for subsequent assessment of whether further roll–out should take place.
REP is a practical demonstration of a number of key Hampton principles to reduce the burdens of enforcement and inspection on compliance businesses such as improving joined up working between government agencies, focusing on outcomes rather than outputs (such as the number of inspections carried out) and genuine sharing of data leading to a more intelligent and risk–based view of an individual business.
Clive Jones (Project Lead):
T. 020 7215 0353
E:clive.jones@berr.gsi.gov.uk
Chad Woodward (Project Manager):
T. 020 7215 0022
E.chad.woodward@berr.gsi.gov.uk
Xavier Baby (Project Support):
T. 020 7215 0152
E.xavier.baby@berr.gsi.gov.uk