Article: New office aims for better regulation and enforcement at a local authority level

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 ...

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