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Article: New office aims for better regulation and enforcement at a local authority level
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 13, 2007
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THE first chairman of the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO)
has been appointed.
Clive Grace, currently the chairman of Supporta, which provides
services to the public and private sectors, will take up his new role
in June.
Grace - who until 2005 was director general of the Audit
Commission in Wales and deputy auditor-general for Wales - has also
worked with Audit Scotland as a consultant.
Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, announced the creation of the LBRO
in his 2005 pre-Budget report. The new organisation is designed to
make regulations "simpler, more effective and better value for
money".
Grace will set the LBRO's strategic direction and lead a board
composed of people from the ...