Small Businesses: Regulation
Commons · Question 129228 · 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 the 25% administration reduction target set out in the Regulation Action Plan on the baseline annual compliance costs of small and medium-sized en
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...