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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.
Sports & Recreation
Our Sports & Recreation Red Tape Challenge theme covers regulations relating to Sports, Heritage, Gambling, Museums and wider Recreation.
Share your views on how to improve these regulations, on our comment pages; or submit a private contribution to our inbox.
Live Red Tape Challenge comments - 28,856 so far...
Latest 10 Comments, click to view more:
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- 3. Simon Butterworth - The changes to RIDDOR were heralded as saving industry 10,000's of hours of unnecessary work. So far I have found that to the contrary as all my......
- 4. Jim Cathcart - Re-notification of Automatic Entitlement when premises licence holder changes This requirement should be removed from the Gambling Act 2005, as ......
- 5. Andrew Fleckney - I believe that he Site Waste Management Plan Regs have improved the management of waste on site and the control of waste from site to tip. Scrapping......
- 6. Tamsin Caruana - I think we need more legislation not less! I think that the environment should be protected for its own right but I also think that humans are......
- 7. malcolm perry - The array of overlapping legislation that is required to be kept up to date for a ISO 14001 legal register is horrible. As a business we are required......
- 8. Jillian Pegrum - Aon Hewitt is a global company providing human resource consulting and outsourcing solutions with more than 29,000 professionals in 90 countries,......
- 9. Claire Chapman - I cant believe there thinking about changing the legislation. The environment is somewhere we all live and we should look after the wildlife we still......
- 10. Janice Turner - This proposal is made on behalf of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees. Many employers are struggling with the cost of their defined......
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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.
Currently live for comment
- Sports & Recreation – closes 31 May
- Disruptive Business Models
- General Regulations
- Focus on Enforcement – opens BIS website.
What’s coming up soon
- Civil Society – 17 May
- Legal Services – 31 May
- Insurance & Financial Services
- Business Services
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