Better Regulation Simplification Plan
The BIS 2009 Simplification Plan, “Delivering a Better Business Environment” was part of the former cross-government programme to reduce administrative burdens associated with regulation.
BIS delivered in full on its target – a net reduction of 25% in annual administrative burdens by 2010. In the last year BIS made useful 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, the fourth Simplification Plan.
Beneficiaries from the measures included small businesses, retailers, insolvency practitioners and creditors, and public sector workers.
BIS Simplification Plan 2009: Delivering a Better Business Environment (PDF 699KB)
BIS Simplification Plan 2009 Summary Document (PDF 45KB): This is a two-sided leaflet which summarises the main measures in the 2009 Plan above.
Background
In December 2006 the former DTI published its first Simplification Plan which built on an earlier draft in 2005. The 2006 (PDF 516KB) 2007 (PDF 555KB) and 2008 (PDF 299KB). 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 (PDF 2109KB) 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 (PDF 346KB) which formed a technical annex to the final reports prepared for each Government department.
