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Reducing administrative burdens ? effective inspection and enforcement
(the
Hampton Report
) is a March 2005 UK publication produced under businessman
Philip Hampton
. The UK Statutory Code of Practice for Regulators is based on its recommendations with the purpose to promote efficient and
effective approaches to regulatory inspection and enforcement.
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In the
2004 Budget
, Hampton was asked to lead a review of regulatory inspection and enforcement. This review produced the
Hampton Report
. This report, together with the later
Macrory Review
"Regulatory Justice ? making sanctions effective"
[2]
led to the UK
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008
.
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One result was that the
Ayres and Braithwaite Compliance Pyramid
was effectively codified into UK law.
The Hampton Report also recommended an enhanced role for the
Office of Fair Trading
(OFT). The OFT were to set national priorities and coordinate performance management of local authority trading standards services.
Local Better Regulation Office
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The 2005 Report initiated the creation of the
Local Better Regulation Office
(LBRO) as a government-owned company
statutory corporation
with
statutory powers
. Previously the Consumer and Trading Standards Agency (CTSA),
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it set out standards on how trading standards and other business regulators carried out their work to minimise the impact on legitimate business.
The LBRO was dissolved on 1 April 2012, its functions taken over by the
Better Regulation Delivery Office
, an independent unit within the
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
.
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Dr. Clive Lester Grace, erstwhile Chair of the LBRO, was awarded an
OBE
in the
2013 New Year Honours
for services to Business and voluntary service to Communities.
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