1. Paper proposes regulator cull.
- Subjects
- *
GOVERNMENT agencies , *DELEGATED legislation , *PRIVATIZATION , *GOVERNMENT ownership , *ENERGY auditing - Abstract
Reports claims of the Social Market Foundation in a paper that government regulators overseeing the energy transport and water industries are ineffective and should be replaced by single, slimmed down agencies. Statement of the paper's author Dr Dieter Helm, that regulation has become an industry in its own right; Claims of regulation of more privatized companies than during their national ownership and consequent sweating of industries' assets leading to major problems with investment and security of supply; Call for the establishment of an energy regulatory agency incorporating the work of the Energy Savings Trust and the Carbon Trust and the environment department's energy efficiency and renewables team.
- Published
- 2004