Some good news for business... reduction in red tape!
In the Queen’s Speech this week - Gordon Brown's first as Prime Minister - the government has promised a new bill to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses (a new Regulatory enforcement and sanctions bill – which actually sounds quite daunting itself!).
Worryingly bearing in mind its aim, it is apparently one of 22 Bills and seven draft bills in the legislative programme.
The new measure will we gather:
- establish a Local Better Regulation Office, to bring consistency to local authority enforcement;
- put in place a range of administrative sanctions for regulatory non-compliance and require that regulators would not impose unnecessary burdens;
- ensure that a reducing unnecessary burdens imposed by local authority regulatory services is a priority.
