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About the Better Regulation Executive

The Better Regulation Executive has been tasked by the Prime Minister to minimise bureaucracy for businesses and front–line staff in the public sector and to help charities and the voluntary sector to make a greater contribution to society.

A dynamic force in government, the Better Regulation Executive sits within the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and works across government to support and challenge departments and regulators as they reduce and remove regulation across the private, public and voluntary sectors. The Better Regulation Executive also plays an active role in promoting the better regulation agenda in Europe.

The Better Regulation Executive has overall responsibility for the Government's commitments to:

• regulate only when necessary
• set exacting targets for reducing the cost of administering regulations
• rationalise the inspection and enforcement arrangements for both business and the public sector

This will involve:

• scrutinising new policy proposals from Departments and Regulators
• speeding up the legislative process to make it easier for Departments to take through deregulatory measures
• working with Departments and Regulators to reduce existing regulatory burdens affecting business and the voluntary sector, and frontline staff in the public sector
• driving forward the better regulation agenda in Europe

The work of the Better Regulation Executive will cover public, private and voluntary sectors and European issues, and also how inspection and enforcement arrangements are carried out on the ground.

The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has the Ministerial lead on this agenda across Whitehall.