Product Regulation and Metrology Bill: impact assessment - RPC opinion (green-rated)
Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on DBT's impact assessment in respect of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, which was introduced to Parliament on 11 September 2024.
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The Bill concerns UK product safety, regulation and metrology framework. It makes provision about: the marketing, or use, of products in the UK; units of measurement and the quantities in which goods are marketed in the UK.
The impact assessment (IA) provides sufficient evidence of the problem under consideration and a strong argument for intervention. The Department has not provided monetisation of the impacts. The IA states that this is because the Bill’s powers themselves do not result in costs or benefits to business or households. Instead, it provides a qualitative assessment and indicative figures to illustrate the likely scale of impacts, including estimating the size of the potential markets involved. The IA confirms that costs and benefits will be analysed further for the related secondary legislation. This is consistent with RPC guidance on assessment of impacts of primary legislation, but the Bill’s IA could be improved by including further detail of the impacts expected from the related secondary legislation.