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1/8 As Covid19 has shown starkly, there's no point in having regulations and laws unless they are enforced (Barnard Castle). A shocking new report out today from @Unchecked_UK shows all too clearly how enforcement has been consigned to the dustbin over the last 10 years.
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2/8 The UK's Enforcement Gap 2020 https://www.unchecked.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-UKs-Enforcement-Gap-2020.pdf brings together data from a variety of sources and issues, from wildlife protection to food safety, fly tipping to water quality. Here are some of the infographics.
Firstly massive funding cuts to regulators budgets.
Firstly massive funding cuts to regulators budgets.
3/8 Massive cuts to staff across Government agencies and Local Authorities working on environmental regulation.
4/8 A catastrophic decline in data collection, monitoring, compliance and prosecutions. It's back to the Wild West days out there.
5/8 Do you know how safe the food you're eating is? No, you don't because compliance and enforcement activity has fallen off a cliff.
6/8 and departments which are supposed to be checking food safety are running on skeleton staff.
7/8 Just as well there's not going to be a flood of new food imports with much lower production standards about to hit the shops. Oh wait.... #chlorinatedchicken
8/8 Read the report to find out more. Please share widely, write articles etc. Voters, of all colours, have shown time and again they support regulation but we are in a deregulatory death spiral. FYI @GeorgeMonbiot @henrymance @DeborahMeaden
