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BERR Simplification Plan 2007 – Promoting Business and Enterprise through Better Regulation

BERR is pleased to present the  - 2007 - Simplification Plan, sub-titled “Promoting business and enterprise through better regulation”. This Plan recognises BERR’s key role in providing the right environment for business to succeed, with regulatory reform at the heart of the agenda.

The Plan sets out both the savings we have already delivered, and detailed proposals from across the Department’s full range of regulatory responsibilities that will achieve our ambitious target of a 25 percent reduction by 2010 in the administrative costs that our regulations place on business. Other Government Departments are producing similar Plans in an exercise coordinated by the Better Regulation Executive, which is now part of BERR.

This Plan builds on the 2006 DTI Plan which committed us to a programme of simplification that would deliver some £700m in annual administrative burdens savings by 2010 (equivalent to around 14 percent of the former DTI baseline for administrative burdens). Here we update that programme, which is now set to deliver net reductions in administrative burdens worth more than £1 billion per year by the target date.

Simplification plan 2007: promoting business and enterprise through better regulation  (555KB)

BERR Simplification Plan 2007 - Summary Document

This is a two-sided leaflet which summarises the main measures in the 2007 Plan above.

BERR simplification plan 2007: summary document  (89KB)

In December 2006 the former DTI published its first Simplification Plan which built on an earlier draft in 2005. To view the 2006 Plan plan click on the link under related documents.

Associated documents:

Administrative Burdens Measurement Exercise Report

The primary purpose of this report written for the then DTI by PwC was to communicate the results of the Administrative Burdens Measurement Exercise (ABME) for the former DTI. The ABME forms part of the Government’s wider Administrative Burdens Reductions Project. This report (452 pages) presented the administrative costs for the regulation in scope for the then DTI. It explained how the measurement was carried out, any variations in the planned implementation approach and how these were handled. It was accompanied by a separate "technical summary" document (79 pages) which formed a technical annex to the final reports prepared for each Government department.