Let the red tape cutting commence!
With scissors, stanley knives and the odd chainsaw poised, a new Cabinet committee with the task of reducing the heavy burden of red tape on business met for the first time yesterday.
The ‘Reducing Regulation Committee’, chaired by Business Secretary Vince Cable, began its major review of all the regulations it says were inherited from the past government at Whitehall yesterday.
The committee has been charged with testing current regulations, and sending back to departments the regulations that it believes place too much stress on entrepreneurs. This is the first time a committee has had this power.
The committee will also assess any new regulations, and make sure there is a very good case for them, and that all other options have been considered before they are introduced.
The committee's role is in line with the new government’s focus on shifting power away from the state back to individuals, businesses and communities, in an aim to stimulate economic recovery.
Dr Cable said: “For too long, there has been a misplaced notion that Government’s job is to regulate. That is not the case. Regulation should be the last resort.
“This committee, along with the new “challenge group”, will help change the culture of Government and find new ways of solving problems, reducing the red tape that is strangling enterprise.
“We need businesses to drive the growth our economy needs, not be tied up with form filling, and the Government is determined to do all it can to make that happen.”
The committee’s members are:
• Dr Vince Cable (Chair), Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Phillip Hammond (Deputy Chair), Secretary of State for Transport
• Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
• Oliver Letwin, Minister of State for the Cabinet Office
• David Lidington, Minister of State for Europe
• Mark Prisk, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise
• Steve Webb, Minister of State for Pensions.
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