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FDF Response to BIS Simplification 2010-15

February 2010

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FDF has responded to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' public consultation on how Government can help reduce the regulatory burden on business by £6.5 billion annually up to 2015.

The initiative aims to create administrative savings of £1.5 billion and a £5 billion reduction in policy costs that businesses must incur to comply with regulation. The simplification consultation called for evidence based on key policy themes and asked in these areas: what regulatory activities placed disproportionate costs on business compared to benefits; and what actions should be taken to remove or reduce costs without undermining the policy intention of the regulation(s) concerned.

FDF's submission focused on the multitude of voluntary public health measures that have been introduced in a short space of time, the tide of new employment legislation coming into effect without clear guidance and the lack of vision and clarification behind various climate change and energy policies. The above fell under the themes of Health and Social Welfare, Employment and Skills and Natural Environment.

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FDF Response to BIS Simplification 2010-15 - pdf | 44.9kb