Better Regulation Executive
The Better Regulation Executive: making regulation work for everyone
The Better Regulation Executive has been tasked by the Prime Minister with cutting red tape so that businesses can be more productive and public services more efficient, by legislating only where necessary and deregulating and simplifying existing legislation wherever possible.
Next Steps on Regulatory Reform: Next Steps on Regulatory Reform, which sets out a range of initiatives that will help realise the benefits of better regulation for businesses, third sector organisations and the public sector front line.
Warning: too much information can harm: The Better Regulation Executive and the National Consumer Council have published a joint interim report looking at how to maximise the positive impact of regulated information for consumers and markets.
Regulation and Business Advice: The Better Regulation Executive report to Government Regulation and Business Advice examines the role of business advisors in implementing regulation. The report recommends that, with better communication and guidance, costs to business could be substantially reduced.
Enforcement Concordat and Compliance Code: Work to protect the public, the environment and groups such consumers and workers through business friendly enforcement of regulations.
Implementing Hampton: from enforcement to compliance: Work towards implementating the Hampton principles, to result in fewer forms, fewer inspections, better advice, and better coordination between regulatory bodies.
Local Better Regulation Office: Working with local authorities to reduce burdens on business and help drive up the quality of local authority regulatory service.
Private Inspection Mergers: The Better Regulation Executive is overseeing work on regulatory mergers, which all together will reduce 31 regulators to 7 by April 2009.
Public Sector Reform: The Government has published the Delivering Better Regulation in the public sector report, a strategy to free frontline workers from red tape.
Regulatory Reform Orders: An index of Regulatory Reform Orders from 2001 to the present day.
Retail Enforcement Pilot: The Better Regulation Executive's key regulatory reform project seeking to improve the delivery of regulatory enforcement services as part of the Hampton Agenda.
Simplifying Regulation: Government departments are developing rolling programmes of simplification.
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act: News and details of the Legislative & Regulatory Reform Act. The Act aims to make it quicker and easier to tackle unnecessary or over-complicated regulation.
Regulatory Reform Act: Details of the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 and developments since in was enacted.
Risk, Responsibility, Regulation: The Government has published its response to the Better Regulation Commission's report 'Risk, Responsibility, Regulation: Whose Risk Is It Anyway?
Scrutiny: Work with individual policy makers and policy teams to improve the quality of evidence supporting proposed regulation and encourage robust appraisal.