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Better Regulation Simplification Plan

The BIS 2009 Simplification Plan, “Delivering a Better Business Environment” is part of a cross-government programme to reduce administrative burdens associated with regulation.

We are delighted to report that BIS has delivered in full on our target – a net reduction of 25% in annual administrative burdens by 2010. In the last year we have made enormous progress - well over £1 billion worth of savings for the UK are now being achieved every year as a result of the measures in this, our fourth Simplification Plan.
Beneficiaries from our measures cover a wide range, and include small businesses, retailers, insolvency practitioners and creditors, and public sector workers. We are confident that we have tackled the “hassle factor” and that the measures are of real benefit to all our stakeholders.

BIS Simplification Plan 2009: Delivering a Better Business Environment

BIS simplification plan 2009: delivering a better business environmentPDF document (699KB)

BIS Simplification Plan 2009 Summary Document
This is a two-sided leaflet which summarises the main measures in the 2009 Plan above.

BIS simplification plan 2009: summary documentPDF document (45KB)

 

Background

In December 2006 the former DTI published its first Simplification Plan which built on an earlier draft in 2005. To view the 2006 2007 and 2008 Plans click on the links under related documents. In 2007 and 2008 there were separate plans for the former BERR and DIUS.

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.
DTI Admininstrative Burdens Measurement Exercise final report Administrative burdens measurement exercise - technical summary
 

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