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The Government has published the document ‘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.
The UK is taking forward an ambitious and wide–ranging regulatory reform agenda and real progress has been made over the last ten years. Delivering better regulation is central to the UK's overall economic aims – meeting the challenges of globalisation, improving productivity and promoting innovation – in a modern and fair society.
Nonetheless, the Government fully recognises that more can be done. Research by the National Audit Office shows a large proportion of businesses are not confident that the Government's regulatory reform agenda will succeed in delivering concrete improvements for them. The Government needs to address both the reality and the perception of this situation.
The new Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) leads the Government's drive on better regulation. The ‘Next Steps on Regulatory Reform’ document sets out how the new Department will continue to improve its own regulatory performance, plus the steps the Government as a whole will take to drive improvement.
The Next Steps on Regulatory Reform aim to:
Target simplifications to improve the effectiveness of regulation through –
Helping people understand regulation through –
Holding Government and regulators to account through –
Two further reports: ‘Regulation and Business Advice’ about the role of Business Advisors in regulation and ‘Warning: too much information can harm’, a joint interim report from the National Consumer Council and the Better Regulation Executive on the effectiveness of consumer information were also published as part of the Next Steps.