How we make decisions

Major policy proposals and decisions

Our policy pages provide an overview of our main policy proposals and decisions.

Background information for major policy proposals and decisions

• All final stage impact assessments are stored in the impact assessment library
• Equality impact assessments
• Report data - Underlying data from BIS reports and publications
• Analysis and statistics

Public consultations

• The consultations page provides information about the Department’s current and closed policy proposals.

• White papers published by BIS can be identified in our publications pages by searching for "white paper" in the free-text search facility.

Internal communications guidance

• Consultation guidance offers advice on the publication of consultation documents in both online and off-line formats, as well as in other versions.

Improving communication with businesses

• The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) has introduced guidance to help businesses understand what new regulations apply to them, which ones don’t, and what changes are happening to existing regulations. See Better Regulation

Manuals and guidelines

• Standard Terms and Conditions - The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract for Services (PF31) and Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract for Goods (PF32).

 

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