Useful Links

The Impact Assessment briefing was sent to the US Drug Czar’s office and to key individuals in Mexico and the UK.

• Letter to R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy - click here to download

• Reply from the Home Office - click here to download

• For detail on European Union Impact assessment theory and practice, with a selection of example IAs, visit this website.

• 'Clarifying the relationship between policy evaluation, post-legislative scrutiny and post-implementation review', Department for Business Innovation and Skills document on is available (March 2010)

• 'Explanatory Memorandum to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2005', Home Office (2005)

• 'Explanatory Memorandum to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment no. 2) Order 2010', Home Office (2010)

• 'Impact Assessment Guidance', Department for Business Innovation and Skills Impact Assessment Guidance (April 2010)

• 'Memorandum to the Home Affairs Committee Post-Legislative Assessment of the Drugs Act 2005', Secretary of State for the Home Department (September 2010)

• 'Post-legislative Scrutiny', House of Commons' Post-Legislative Scrutiny document (January 2010)

• 'Post-legislative Scrutiny: the Government's Approach', Office of the Leader of the House of Commons (March 2008)

• '5th Report of Session 2010-11', Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee of the House of Lords (2010)

• Powerpoint presentation on impact assessments, from Maurice Galla, Seconded National Expert at European Commission

Further Reading

•  Renda, ‘Impact Assessment in the EU; The State of the Art and the Art of the State' (CEPS 2006)

•  H. Becker and F. Vanclay (eds), ‘The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment' (Edward Elgar 2003)

•  Kirkpatrick and D. Parker (eds), ‘Regulatory Impact Assessment: Towards Better Regulation?' (Edward Elgar 2007)