UK businesses and the public are being asked to send ideas on how environmental rules and regulations can be made more straightforward. Businesses could save more than £1 billion over 10 years if environmental guidance were easier to find and follow, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said today. Starting today, UK businesses and the public are [...]

Results of Pensions Red Tape Challenge The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) today unveiled a set of measures to ease the administrative and regulatory burden on employers, following input from pension providers, businesses and consumers through the Pensions Theme of the Red Tape Challenge. Although it found the legislation was largely fit for purpose, [...]

Results of Aviation Red Tape Challenge – 58% of regulations will be scrapped or improved. New theme on General Aviation to launch on 11 April. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that it will revoke or improve 48 of the 83 regulations examined under the Aviation theme- reducing the regulatory burden on airports, airlines [...]

The MHRA is today announcing a package of simplification proposals. This follows participation in the Cabinet Office Red Tape Challenge exercise last year. In total 253 MHRA regulations were published in this RTC theme for public comment. 208 (over 80% of these) were consolidated in the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, which is one of the [...]

Focus on Enforcement Review of Volunteer Events The Focus on Enforcement Review of Volunteer Events has now published its findings – addressing the compliance and enforcement barriers that can get in the way of organising running community events such as fetes and fun-days. In response the Office for Civil Society will publish a volunteers’ guide [...]

MARITIME TRANSPORT ANNOUNCEMENT – GOVERNMENT PLANS TO SCRAP OR IMPROVE ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF MARITIME REGULATIONS The results of the Maritime Transport Red Tape Challenge theme were announced in the Budget today. The Maritime theme ran from November 2011 to July 2012 – and around 200 comments were received. Through the Red Tape Challenge process [...]

Thousands of businesses are to be spared from red tape after Business Minister Jo Swinson announced the interim results from the Company and Commercial Law Red Tape Challenge. The interim findings show that half of the 115 regulations on the day to day running of a company and the preparing and filing of their accounts [...]

The Red Tape Challenge and the wider Government deregulation agenda is yielding real benefits for business. Reforms implemented through the Red Tape Challenge are already saving businesses over £155 million per year, with many further savings still to come. Measures implemented so far include new guidance on contaminated land saving business around £140m per year, [...]

The results of the Housing and Construction Red Tape Challenge theme have been announced. The theme was in the spotlight from 12 January to the 27 February 2012 and received over 200 comments. Of the 206 regulations consulted on, it is proposed to scrap or improve 49%. These changes come alongside a package of other [...]

Another step forward to reduce red tape Over 50% of regulatory reforms to scrap or improve regulation have been done, says BIS implementation reports which are keeping retail and manufacturing businesses up to date on progress with reducing red tape. The BIS Red Tape Challenge Implementation team have published two implementation reports on the Retail [...]