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Our mission is to build a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this we will foster world-class universities and promote an open global economy.

New Industry, New Jobs – an active industrial strategy for Britain – is at the heart of BIS’s mission. It’s about the British Government actively working to ensure our people and businesses are equipped to compete and win in the global economy emerging from this downturn. Read more about New Industry, New Jobs and the cross-government approach for supporting sustainable economic growth.


Better regulation

  • Better regulation

    30 Mar 2010

    The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) is part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and leads the regulatory reform agenda across government.

  • Better Regulation Executive

    22 Mar 2010

    The UK Government has set out an ambitious programme to change the way we regulate. We are cutting out of date and unnecessary red tape to deliver greater accountability, better focused, better targeted and more effective protections. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) plays a lead role in driving through a programme of activities to simplify regulation.

  • Better Regulation Policy

    25 Feb 2010

    How the Government tries to achieve the aims of the better regulation agenda, to eliminate obsolete and inefficient regulation, create user-friendly new guidelines and tackle inconsistencies in the regulatory system.

  • Code of Practice on Guidance on Regulation

    22 Feb 2010

    A break down on the Code of Practice on Guidance on Regulation, which sets out eight golden rules that Government should follow, when publishing guidance for businesses and third sector organisations on how to comply with the law.

  • Consultation guidance

    22 Feb 2010

    The Government has a Code of Practice on Consultation. This Code sets out what people can expect from the Government when it runs formal, written consultation exercises on matters of policy or policy implementation.

  • Improving Regulatory Delivery – putting business into the way we regulate

    22 Feb 2010

    Business is regulated and enforced by many different organisations. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) works with regulators, departments, Non Departmental Public Bodies and Local Authorities to simplify their approach, understand the business perspective and improve the perception of enforcement and regulation.

  • New Industry, New Jobs

    25 Mar 2010

    New Industry, New Jobs is an active industrial strategy for Britain. It's about the British Government actively working to ensure our people and businesses are equipped to compete and win in the global economy emerging from this downturn.

  • Simplifying existing regulations

    18 Mar 2010

    The Government’s commitment to simplifying existing regulations in the UK and reducing the administrative burden they place upon businesses.


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