Business: Regulation
Commons · Question 20576 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade · Official record
Answered 7 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Mike Wood
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, with reference to the answer of 5 February 2026 to Question HL13843 on Business: Regulation, what the evidential basis and methodology is for the £22.4bn a year baseline on the cos
Answer
Answered by Blair McDougall, 7 Sep 2026
We estimated the annual administrative burden baseline using a pragmatic, top-down approach, with data sources including the 2005-10 administrative burden reduction programme and the Business Perceptions Survey: see detail in the published 'Technical Anne...