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The May 2007 White Paper "Meeting the energy challenge: a white paper on energy" (Cm. 7124, ISBN 9780101712422) set out the Government's international and domestic strategy to address the two main challenges: tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions; and ensuring clean and affordable energy as the country becomes increasingly dependent on imported fuel. An online consultation on nuclear power and the role of the private sector: www.direct.gov.uk/nuclearpower2007 was produced at the same time. This White Paper sets out the Government's decision taken in response to the consultation. The Government believes it is in the public interest that new nuclear power stations should...
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe’s entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.
The Better Regulation Executive and government departments are not yet in a position to achieve value for money in their management of regulation. However, the Better Regulation Executive, created in 2005, and departments have developed important elements of a structured approach to achieving sustainable reductions in regulatory costs and have delivered significant benefits. Businesses generally recognise the purpose of regulation, but they believe that it can be unnecessarily burdensome, particularly on the smallest businesses. Businesses interviewed by the NAO typically have to consider as many as 60 regulations, governed by many different regulatory bodies. Businesses, particularly small ...
This report on the government fund to support private sector jobs and growth in places that rely on the public sector, the Regional Growth Fund, finds that the initial £1.4 billion investment could result in some 41,000 more full-time-equivalent private sector jobs in the economy than without the Fund. However, there was scope to have generated more jobs relative to the amount of grant awarded. The Fund has not optimised value for money because a significant proportion of the funds were allocated to projects that offer relatively few jobs for the money invested. The report concludes that applying tighter controls over the value for money offered by individual bids and then allocating fundin...
This publication presents recent OECD papers on risk and regulatory policy. They offer measures for developing, or improving, coherent risk governance policies.
Report on the significance, direction, and means of reform in regulatory regimes in member countries. Contents: 1. Why reform regulations? 2. Effects of regulatory reform 3. Supporting public policy goals 4. Strategies for successful reform.
Enabling power: European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, s. 8 (1). Issued: 29.07.2020. Sifted: 14.07.2020. Made: 22.07.2020. Laid: 24.07.2020. Coming into force: In accord. with reg. 1. Effect: None. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. General. EC note: Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 amended
Papers from a conference sponsored by PLM in Malmo, Sweden, June 1970. Includes bibliographical references.
Enabling power: Companies Act 2006, ss. 1046 (1) (2) (4) to (6), 1047 (1), 1049 (1) to (3), 1050 (3) to (5), 1051 (1) to (3), 1053 (2) to (5), 1054 (1) (2), 1055, 1056, 1058 (1) to (3), 1078 (5), 1105 (1) (2), 1140 (2), 1292 (1) (4), 1294. Issued: 21.05.2009. Made: -. Laid: -. Coming into force: 01.10.2009. Effect: S.I. 1992/3179; S.R. 1993/198 revoked. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. For approval by resolution of each House of Parliament. Superseded by S.I. 2009/1801 (ISBN 9780111482247)