Reducing administrative burdens – effective inspection and enforcement (the Hampton Report) is a March 2005 UK publication produced under businessman

Philip Hampton Sir Philip Roy Hampton (born 5 October 1953) is a British businessman. He was the first chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited in 2008 and chairman of government-owned The Royal Bank of Scotland Group between 2009 and 2015. He has also ch ...

. 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. In the

2004 Budget 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

, 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" led to the UK

Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 The Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which is designed to provide for more consistent enforcement of regulations across local authority boundaries, better co-ordination between local ...

. One result was that the

Ayres and Braithwaite Compliance Pyramid Regulatory risk differentiation is the process used by a regulatory authority (the regulator - most often a tax administration) to systemically treat entities differently based on the regulator's assessment of the risks of the entity's non-complia ...

was effectively codified into UK law. The Hampton Report also recommended an enhanced role for the

Office of Fair Trading The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was a non-ministerial government department of the United Kingdom, established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforced both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the United Kingdom's economic ...

(OFT). The OFT were to set national priorities and coordinate performance management of local authority trading standards services.

Local Better Regulation Office

The 2005 Report initiated the creation of the ''Local Better Regulation Office'' (LBRO) as a government-owned company

statutory corporation A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, thus, they are statutes owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in ...

with

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. Previously the Consumer and Trading Standards Agency (CTSA), 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

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.LBRO website
/ref> Dr. Clive Lester Grace, erstwhile Chair of the LBRO, was awarded an OBE in the

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for services to Business and voluntary service to Communities.

References

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