Today's entry reports on the publication of the
government's proposals following the 'red tape
challenge'.
Back in February, the spotlight of the 'red tape
challenge', the cross-governmental project to reduce the
regulatory burden, moved to planning, as reported in
this blog entry. Following that, the government held a
'star chamber' on the regulations, where officials had to
justify to the Treasury why they should keep regulations that
consultees wanted to be scrapped or merged.
On Tuesday, the government published a press release
and a simple list
of regulations that are proposed to be simplified, merged or
scrapped. The ones to be simplifed or merged are in one list, and
the ones to be scrapped are in another, so there is currently no
way to tell if regulations in the first list will be merged (and
with what) or simplified, or both. There is also no further detail
on the extent of simplification, so it is all quite tantalising at
the moment. As predicted, the
