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Heavy-handed government inspectors to be kept on tighter leash
Plans to change the way that businesses experience ‘frontline enforcement’, such as business inspections, were set out today by Business Secretary Vince Cable, including a full scale review of UK regulatory bodies and moves to cut the number of inspections for ‘compliant’ firms.
160 redundant regulations being scrapped (at long last)
Plans to scrap or simplify more than 160 regulations, freeing the public and retailers from rules that are unnecessarily burdensome, overly bureaucratic or completely redundant have been announced today by Business Secretary Vince Cable.
Government 'war on red tape' exposed as total failure
In all, 84% of Forum members reported an increase in time spent complying with legislation since 2009, when the not-for-profit organisation's previous ‘cost of compliance' Referendum survey took place.
Further, 67% of respondents are being forced to spend more money on external consultants to help them avoid legal pitfalls.
Government aims to help SMEs by ending 'gold-plating' of EU regulations
Secretary of State for Business, and Chair of the Reducing Regulation Committee, Vince Cable today set out a series of new principles that the Government will use when introducing European measures into UK law. These will end so-called “gold-plating” so that British businesses are not put at a disadvantage relative to their European competitors.