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The Cabinet Office has published departmental guidance on the classification of public bodies, with further guidance to be published this year. The guidance recommends promoting efficiency and accountability amongst arm’s-length bodies and establishing coherent categories of arms-length bodies. Over the years, a significant number of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) with environmental functions have been created. More recently these bodies have been rationalised and merged.
Whilst there may be thoughts that further mergers of environmental regulators should take place, our view is that only if this is a necessary prerequisite of Brexit will this happen in the short term. Brexit could have significant consequences for environmental regulation in the UK, given that so much of the current body of environmental law is EU derived. The Great Repeal Bill White Paper (30 March 2017) states: “The Great Repeal Bill will ensure that the whole body of existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law.” We see no reason for the outcome of the election on 8 June 2017 to alter this commitment. So as part of Brexit, the Government may well need to allocate functions currently discharged by EU institutions either to itself or potentially to existing or new environmental NDPBs.
Browne Jacobson recently held a round table on 'Our changing state: mergers and demergers of Non-Departmental Public Bodies' – read a copy of our report.
The Chancellor’s latest Budget Report outlined that the Government will introduce a £100 million Economic Crime Levy, otherwise known as the AML Levy no earlier than April 2022 to fund action to tackle money laundering and ensure delivery of reforms in the Government’s Economic Crime Plan.
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ACAS has issued guidance for employers in order to deal with sick pay, quarantined staff and staff who are reluctant to come into work due to fears of catching coronavirus.
Some schools have hit the headlines this week for their decisions to offer only vegetarian meals. But would a similar approach extend to the workplace?
Developers received welcome confirmation from the Court of Appeal this month that ‘overlooking’ (providing a view into another’s property) does not constitute a nuisance or invasion of privacy.
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