Regulation, Regulators and the Growth Agenda
The impact of regulation, multiple regulators and different approaches to regulatory/enforcement on the costs of business; the implications for innovation; the implications for growth; and the potential for a different approach .
This event is exclusive to BRC Retail Members and by invitation only.
At our senior Regulatory Roundtable last year, we explored issues around regulation and some better or good regulation initiatives.
In this second in person roundtable our focus turns to regulators themselves – the agencies that enforce the regulations and indeed often expand upon them with more detailed requirements.
Recently the Government, not least the Chancellor and DBT Secretary of State, has called for ideas to streamline the regulatory landscape and ensure that regulators and how they enforce regulations contribute to the growth agenda rather than inhibiting businesses from expanding and innovating.
The BRC is participating in this process including a letter to the Chancellor with a set of 10 principles that we believe could lead to better outcomes.
The CEO of the CMA, one of the leading Regulators, Sarah Cardell, will attend and lead a session on how the CMA approaches and will approach its regulatory task, particularly in light of its new consumer protection powers.
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Meet the Speakers
Helen Dickinson OBE
CEO | BRC
Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail.
Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail, she acts as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador and was previously the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment.She is on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses, and was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG.
Graham Wynn
Assistant Director for Consumer, E-Commerce and Regulatory Affairs | BRC
Graham joined the BRC in 2001 and has built up an extensive network in departments and agencies which he can call on for information, advice and to make submissions on policy proposals. He was Chairman of the EuroCommerce Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee for 10 years, having first lobbied in the EU in 1979. Prior to the BRC he worked on BBC local radio; was Secretary General of an international political organisation; and Head of Policy and the Shadow Cabinet Secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Sarah Cardell
CEO, CMA
Sarah Cardell was appointed as Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 19 December 2022. She was previously appointed as General Counsel at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 11 September 2013, and took up the role of Interim Chief Executive between July and December 2022.
Previous career highlights include:
Legal Partner of the Markets Division at Ofgem, where her responsibilities included leading on competition law matters
Partner in the Competition Group at Slaughter and May, where she advised across a wide range of EU and UK merger and antitrust cases
Working on secondment at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
Agenda
12.00 Welcome and introduction and scene setting
- Approaches to Regulation and Regulators – Principles for change to promote growth
- Over regulation as a result of multiple regulators – the demands on business
Networking Lunch
CMA on how we approach our work as a Regulator - with examples from approach to Consumer and Competition work and our objectives
Conclusions: recommendations on regulatory improvements that would contribute to the growth agenda
15.30: Close
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