Impact and evaluation
We carry out monitoring, impact assessment and evaluation work to help inform our decision making, learn lessons and share good practice. This, in turn, helps us to balance different obligations and objectives, and ensure that regulatory action is both proportionate to the issue at hand and not unduly burdensome on those that we regulate.
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Impact assessment
Impact assessments (IAs) are formal, evidence based procedures that assess the economic, social and wider effects of policy decisions. The purpose of IAs is to provide objective analysis to support decision-making.
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Evaluation and other impact
Evaluation is the systematic assessment of the design, implementation and outcomes of an intervention (including policies, programmes and projects). Evaluation and other ex-post impact analysis helps us understand and evidence what impacts our interventions or decisions have had, for whom and why.