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28/07/2011
Red Tape Challenge 'Sets Retailers Free'
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.
The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge and will see significant changes to legislation that will make life easier for businesses and promote personal freedoms.
Comments from the public and business, along with a vigorous process of challenge within Whitehall, on the 257 regulations under consideration have led to an overhaul of proposals.
These include replacing or simplifying more than 12 pieces of overlapping, costly and confusing consumer rights laws, with a single new piece of legislation, and removing a number of burdens specifically identified by retailers including consolidating and simplifying the procedures for age verification or identification for the selling of age-restricted goods.
The Government’s response also outlined how it had listened to comments from the public and kept well designed and valuable regulations that have widespread support, such as the hallmarking regime.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “We have to roll back the number of rules and regulations that our businesses have to deal with if we are to create the right conditions for sustainable economic growth. We have heard these promises by successive Governments before but these first proposals from the Red Tape Challenge show that we’re serious about doing that and we are making real progress.
“But this is just the start.
We still need the help of business and the public to make the rest of the Red Tape Challenge a success and free businesses to compete, create jobs and unleash a private sector-led recovery.”
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.
(BMcN)
The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge and will see significant changes to legislation that will make life easier for businesses and promote personal freedoms.
Comments from the public and business, along with a vigorous process of challenge within Whitehall, on the 257 regulations under consideration have led to an overhaul of proposals.
These include replacing or simplifying more than 12 pieces of overlapping, costly and confusing consumer rights laws, with a single new piece of legislation, and removing a number of burdens specifically identified by retailers including consolidating and simplifying the procedures for age verification or identification for the selling of age-restricted goods.
The Government’s response also outlined how it had listened to comments from the public and kept well designed and valuable regulations that have widespread support, such as the hallmarking regime.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “We have to roll back the number of rules and regulations that our businesses have to deal with if we are to create the right conditions for sustainable economic growth. We have heard these promises by successive Governments before but these first proposals from the Red Tape Challenge show that we’re serious about doing that and we are making real progress.
“But this is just the start.
We still need the help of business and the public to make the rest of the Red Tape Challenge a success and free businesses to compete, create jobs and unleash a private sector-led recovery.”
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.
(BMcN)
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Life is about to get easier for road users, businesses, and local authorities as Roads Minister Mike Penning today pledged to slash unnecessary red tape. Over 400 Whitehall road transport regulations have been placed on the Red Tape Challenge website - a Government-wide site aimed at reducing bureaucracy - for four weeks.
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Plans have been revealed to scrap or simplify more than 60 regulations that currently apply to the hospitality, food and drink sector. Ministers announced proposals to free the public and businesses from a series of "over-burdensome" or unnecessary rules that are holding the industry back. Tourism Minister John Penrose announced the news this week.
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Manufacturing businesses up and down the country are being asked to play their part in cutting bureaucracy and red tape in the latest phase of a campaign to reduce the burdens on British businesses. For the next three weeks the Red Tape Challenge will focus on 140 different regulations that manufacturers and producers have to deal with every day.
06 May 2011
Red Tape Challenge Laid Down
The hospitality, food and drink industries get the chance today to declare war on the rules and red tape that are holding back their growth and stifling their chances of success. For the next two weeks, the Red Tape Challenge will allow people to name and shame the regulations they want to see scrapped.
Red Tape Challenge Laid Down
The hospitality, food and drink industries get the chance today to declare war on the rules and red tape that are holding back their growth and stifling their chances of success. For the next two weeks, the Red Tape Challenge will allow people to name and shame the regulations they want to see scrapped.
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