Burden-free Business

Plans to scrap or simply remove more than 160 burdensome regulations have been announced by business secretary Vince Cable. The proposals will see changes to legislation that the government hopes will make life easier for businesses.

 Cable believes government should roll back the number of rules and regulations that our businesses have to deal with if we it is to create the right conditions for sustainable economic growth. A point APA enthusiastically supports and has endorsed in recent letters.

The Red Tape Challenge was a key action from the government’s Plan for Growth, which is focusing on creating the right conditions for businesses to start up, invest, grow and create jobs. Over the lifetime of the Challenge, government will examine all of the existing regulations on the statute book, with a view to breaking down the barriers and promoting opportunities for business, freeing them of unnecessary red tape.

Minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk says, ‘We’ve listened to what people have said about the confusing and overlapping rules with the aim to get rid of the ones we don’t need and making the ones we do simpler to understand and put into practice. At the same time though we are preserving good regulation, such as the hallmarking regime, for which there was strong support.”

Dr Gareth Osborne said: “Government have made a good start but there is much more to do. It will take time to sanitise years of bureaucratic over-administration. APA will continue to press for better regulation, not just less regulation.”

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