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Impact Assessment Toolkit

• Introduction
• Impact Assessment template
• Summary: Intervention & Options Page template
  • Rationale and objectives of government intervention
  • Market failure
  • Equity and other objectives
  • Existing policy levers
  • Proportionate analysis
  • Public Sector Impact Assessments
  • Post-implementation Review
  • Ministerial declaration
• Summary: Analysis & Evidence Page and the Evidence Base
  • Generating and short–listing policy options
  • Options appraisal
    • Cost and benefit information to be included in the Impact Assessment
    • Analysis of costs and benefits
    • Quantification
    • Analysing benefits
    • Analysing costs
    • Coverage of costs and benefits
    • Discounting costs and benefits occurring over time
    • Testing your assumptions
    • Sectors and groups affected
  • Risk, uncertainty and unintended consequences
  • Implementation
  • Monitoring
  • Enforcement
  • Sanctions
  • Transposition of EU directives
  • Compensatory simplification (offsetting)
  • Carbon Impact Assessment
  • Competition
  • Average annual cost per organisation by size
  • Admin burdens and Impact Assessment
• Specific Impact Tests
• Impact Assessments for linked policies
• Non–Departmental Public Bodies
• New Burdens Doctrine
• Quality Assurance of Impact Assessment
• Sunset clauses
• PRA and policy clearance
• Consultation code
• Validation of Regulatory Alternatives
• Using an Impact Assessment in EU negotiations
• Publication
• Contact Details
• Example Impact Assessment

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