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The 'Consent regimes - reducing unnecessary bureaucracy' report is the result of a joint project between the Cabinet Office and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to reduce the burdens in local government arising from the consent regime process.
The consent regime process is the process where a local authority has to apply for permission from the Secretary of State to carry out certain activities in order to perform their statutory duties.
The outcomes of this project include a combination of agreed actions and recommendations.
A total of 47 actions that government departments have agreed to take include:
Recommended changes that individual government departments are responsible for making include: