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Better Environmental Guidance
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.
Have your say here.
General Regulations
Some regulations affect all sectors, from rules on health and safety to those on employment. So we’re inviting your comments on six general regulation themes throughout the Red Tape Challenge process.
Visit the general regulations page here, and have your say.
Live Red Tape Challenge comments - 29,377 so far...
Latest 10 Comments, click to view more:
- 1. Caroline Macmillan - I believe that we must do all we can to preserve our countryside and wildlife. The Government should not be allowed to scrap or weaken any laws that......
- 2. Edgar Parnell - The words ‘co-operative’ ‘mutual’ ‘credit union’, ‘friendly society’ , and such other names that describe genuine......
- 3. Ashley Daffin - The current maintenance requirements for certified light aircraft in the UK are too onerous and do not achieve the claimed aim of increasing safety.......
- 4. Ashley Daffin - IMC Rating EASA's insistence on the UK scrapping the IMC rating is a travesty. This rating has a proven safety record in the UK and the CAA should......
- 5. Mathew Newman - There is a general lack of enthusiasm and support from CAA towards General Aviation private Pilots. There is no interest (or could it be lack of......
- 6. Richard A Smith - On CAA I find that every interaction I have with the Licensing department is a shambles. The costs are excessive, and the turnaround time for......
- 7. Peter Tweed - Remove the GAR form requirement for flights within the Common Travel Area. You can drive a car between Scotland / Northern Ireland / Republic of......
- 8. Trevor Sexton - The CAA have a number of rules and regulations that restrict Permit Aircaft from Other Eu contries visiting the UK. In years gone past the rules......
- 9. Trevor Sexton - The CAA should be honed in, in regards to Govenment control. The FASE thats currently going on with the issue of EASA licenses taking the CAA......
- 10. Trevor Sexton - I mainly fly Mircolights. But have a PPL A. The CAA state that hors i fly on microlights do not count towards my bi-annual revalidation of my PPL A.......
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How the Red Tape Challenge works
1. We publish
Every few weeks we publish online the regulations affecting you on a rolling thematic basis. Click here to find out more about the Red Tape Challenge.
2. You respond
You tell us which regulations are working, which are not, what should be scrapped, what should be simplified, and what can be done differently.
3. We act
Based on your feedback, we will start getting rid of unnecessary red tape – freeing up business and society from the burden of excessive regulation.
Keep in touch with the Red Tape Challenge
All comments post on this website are public to promote an open discussion of ways in which the aims of existing regulation can be fulfilled in the least burdensome way possible. If you wish to submit a private contribution, or longer submission, you can join the debate via our e-mail inbox: redtapechallenge@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk. To keep in touch via social media, please click the links below.
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- Pensions
- Medicines
- Water & Marine
- Company & Commercial Law
- Housing & Construction
- Energy
- Maritime and Rail
- Children’s Services & Independent Schools
- Employment Related Law
- Environment
- Enforcement
- Manufacturing
- Health and Safety
- Equalities
- Road Transportation
- Hospitality, Food and Drink
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