Treasury written question – answered at on 29 November 2010.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department and its non-departmental public bodies of implementing and monitoring compliance with legislation transposing EU requirements in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.
It is not standard accounting practice to distinguish regulatory costs from overall running costs, whether of EU origin or domestic. There is therefore no pre-existing breakdown of the costs imposed on it by EU legislation upon which the Department can draw to produce an estimate of such compliance. Any such information that does exist is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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