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. 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" led to the UK Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008. 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 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 economi ...

(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 corporation, government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, but they are corporations owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government ...

with statutory powers. 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

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It was created by the Gordon Brown premiership on 5 June 2009 by the merger of the Department for Innovation, Uni ...

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

2013 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2013 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrati ...

for services to Business and voluntary service to Communities.

References

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