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Business: Regulation

Commons · Question 51440 · Tabled 12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 20 May 2025

Question

Asked by James Wild

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to section 2 of her Department's policy paper entitled New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth, updated on 31 March 2025, when the administrative costs of regulat

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 20 May 2025

The government has committed to cut the administrative costs of regulation to business by 25% by the end of this Parliament. To do this, we must determine the cumulative administrative costs of regulation which has not been done for 15 years. At that time...