Business: Regulation
Commons · Question 129226 · Tabled 22 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Chris Bloore
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of sector-specific administrative cost baselines on measuring the 25% reduction in business compliance costs targeted under the Regulation Action Pla
Answer
Answered by Blair McDougall, 28 Apr 2026
We have established a baseline of the annual administrative burden of regulation on UK businesses, including SMEs. As set out in the technical annex to the policy paper ‘A new approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth’, we used a pragmat...