Home Office simplification plan 2009
On 14 December 2009 we (along with all other major government departments) published our latest annual simplification plan, with a ministerial foreword by Meg Hillier.
The plan sets out how we are de-regulating, consolidating and rationalising regulations and reducing the administrative burden on business, charities and the third sector. It also documents the progress made towards our target of reducing the total admin burden of £83.04m by 25 per cent (£20.76m) over the lifetime of the plan (to May 2010).
We carry out regulatory and simplification activity in the main areas of management of migration, crime prevention and terrorism. The plan includes some important savings for these sectors, and reinforces the Home Office commitment to better regulation throughout its work, both as a department with regulatory responsibilities and as a department with a key policy making role. It also shows how we will be reducing the burdens on the public sector. The key elements of the plan particularly show:
- we have identified over £32.2m (38.8 per cent) savings and will therefore definitely meet the 25% target
- the main contributor to the reduction arises from the change from the old work permit system, representing £59.6m (70 per cent) of the Home Office admin burden, to the new points-based system. A saving of £24.1m has been identified
- reports the continuing work to reduce the burdens under animal scientific procedures, misuse of drugs regulations, and Security Industry Authority and firearms regulations
- outlines the positive outcome from the Hampton review of the Security Industry Authority (SIA). This concluded that the SIA is prioritising its use of better regulation principles and has made real progress improving its performance as a regulator.
The simplification plan also includes:
- the steps we are taking to reduce the data burdens on the police under Sir David Normington’s review
- that we have scrapped activity-based costing and, the lengthy stop and account forms have also been discontinued
- work is also continuing on the immigration simplification bill and full draft bill is expected to be published this Autumn.
Date: Mon Dec 14 08:00:00 GMT 2009
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