Written questions

Small Businesses: Regulation

Commons · Question 58401 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 17 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regulation on small and medium-sized enterprises since 2010.

Answer

Answered by Justin Madders, 17 Jun 2025

Businesses have told us that regulation can be too complex, stifle progress and innovation and the accumulation of poorly designed regulation over decades is a burden to comply with. Our recently published Action Plan for Regulation will aim to reduce the...