The RPI can today announce the eighth session of our Strategy and Governance Forum group, delivered by the RPI’s George Yarrow, titled “The Governance of Regulatory Policy Assessment”
The second in the new Insights into Regulation series of short blogs addresses the causes and effects of a highly dysfunctional ‘division of labour’ in government, with a focus on misdirection and distraction in the application of effort The title is taken from Hamlet’s soliloquy (“To be, or not to be …) and the notion of the insolence of officialdom was, at a later time, a repeated trope in the major works of Adam Smith.
The Regulatory Policy Institute is delighted to announce that John Penrose MP will be presenting his independent report on UK competition policy to an RPI Seminar at 6pm, on Wednesday, 17th February 2021. John plans to spend about 20 mins introducing his report – setting out the context, the issues he has considered, and his main recommendations – followed by a Q&A session. The seminar will take place digitally and
The RPI Research Group is currently developing a programme of work to explore the evolution of decision-making processes for major infrastructure projects. It will investigate the role and effectiveness of independent regulators in this process, identifying the conflicts and ambiguities that have emerged from increasing tensions between the traditional role of an independent regulator and the emerging strategic priorities of government. The programme seeks to draw conclusions about the impacts that these tensions have had on accountability, forecasting in the context of uncertainty, adaptation to changes in technology, and incentivisation of investment; asking if a new decision-making paradigm which reconciles the often conflicting priorities of government and independent regulator, while capturing the long-term nature of such investments, is required.
The RPI Research Group is currently in the process developing a programme of work under the general thematic heading “Rethinking Regulation”, which is also the theme for the RPI’s events activities as countries gradually emerge from the Covid period. This reflects a view that institutional arrangements for, and associated policies toward, the regulation of commercial activity would benefit from rather fundamental reviews in the light of changing economic contexts triggered by factors such as Covid, climate change issues, and, in the specific cases of the UK and EU, Brexit. The research programme is being developed in cooperation with the RPI’s sister network, the Regulatory Policy Institute of Australia and New Zealand. To get involved, please see further on the ‘About’ page and fill in the Enquiries form below.
The purpose of this document is to seek support for, and encourage participation in, the future research programme of the Regulatory Policy Institute in the UK, in co-operation with its sister network, the Regulatory Policy Institute of Australia and New Zealand (RPI ANZ).
The RPI Research Group is currently in the process of developing a programme of work which explores how regulation in conjunction with policy might promote the integration of variable renewable energy technologies into the electricity system in a lowest cost manner. This research programme is being developed with input from experts in Energy Systems and Policy at UCL Bartlett , Energy System Catapult and the Investec Power & Utilities Research Team. To get involved, please see further on the ‘About’ page and fill in the Enquiries form below.
The RPI Research Group is currently in the process of developing a programme of work which explores the most effective approaches to public institutional initiative in support of renewable energy innovation. To get involved, please see further on the ‘About’ page and fill in the Enquiries form below.
Delivered by:Kersti Berge, Director for Energy and Climate Change, Scottish Government. with remarks from Professor George Yarrow, Chairman Emeritus and founder, RPI
Chair:Dr Tony Ballance, Director of Strategy and Regulation, Severn Trent Water Contributions from:Jason Mann, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting;Emily Clark, Chief Economist, BT Group;Lewis Dale, National Grid
Chair:Ed Humpherson (UK Statistics Authority) Contributions from:Siobhan Carty, ORR;David Black, Ofwat; andJason Dorsett, Chief Finance Officer, Oxford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Regulatory innovation tends to start with a new way of looking at a problem. In that spirit what follows is a bare-bones heuristic, not a fully worked out policy design nor anything approximating such a design. It is intended to stimulate some first thinking. The issue is control of net migration of non-citizens (NCs) into a territory. The economic problem to be addressed is that more people want to live
A roundtable discussion with contributions from:Professor Robert Hahn, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford;Cathryn Ross, Ofwat;Tony Ballance, Severn Trent Water;Maxine Frerk, Grid Edge Policy We were very grateful to Hogan Lovells for hosting this seminar
Lord David Owen and discussant: Jonathan Faull We were very grateful to Hogan Lovells for hosting this seminar
Members of the Regulatory Policy Institute have been longstanding supporters of Cabinet Office initiatives to promote better regulation, from the earliest days of these exercises. The Institute has on occasion also undertaken research projects that have contributed to the initiatives. Whilst the following remarks are critical of the current proposals, they are nevertheless the views of ‘friends of the process’.
Mr Philip Fletcher, Director General of Water Services (Ofwat)
Ms Patricia Hodgson CBE, Chief Executive, Independent Television Commission
Professor Fan Gang, China State Council
Ian Byatt, Director General, Office of Water Services
Lord Gordon Borrie, former Director of Fair Trading.
Professor Allan Fels, Head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Clare Spottiswoode, Director General, Ofgas
Sir Christopher Foster, Coopers & Lybrand
John Steele, Prisma Transport Consultants, and formerly Director-General of Transport, European Commission