REGULATORY BURDEN ON BUSINESS
- Session: 2001-02
- Date tabled: 24.09.2002
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
That this House notes that the Regulatory Reform Act came into force in April 2001; further notes that in February this year the Prime Minister promised 260 regulatory reform orders in his regulatory action plan; notes also that only six regulatory reform orders have so far been approved; further notes that the greatest complaint of British business is the costs and burden of red tape and bureaucracy on their activities; and calls on the Government to deliver the commitments made by the Prime Minister in February and reduce the regulatory burden on business.
Amendment 1728A1 - REGULATORY BURDEN ON BUSINESS;Amdt. line 2:
- Session: 2001-02
- Date tabled: 22.10.2002
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
Leave out from `year' to end and add, `the Government's Regulatory Reform Action Plan contained 268 proposals for reform, of which 63 could be by a Regulatory Reform Order, over the next three years; applauds the work of the Regulatory Reform Committee but regrets the continued poor attendance of Conservative honourable and Right honourable Members; welcomes the recent reports about business regimes that put the United Kingdom at the top with the most entrepreneur friendly environment; endorses the greater use of competition assessments in ensuring good policy making; recognises the increasingly important part played by regulatory impact assessments as evidenced by the NAO report in November 2001; notes that more than 95 per cent. of the 4,600 statutory instruments in 2001 had little or no impact on business; congratulates the Government on its intention to publish figures for compliance with the regulatory impact assessment process; calls on the Cabinet Office to ensure full compliance; and hopes for the support of the Opposition to help deliver the commitments in the Regulatory Reform Action Plan.'.