Getting Britain moving - a blitz on Red Tape

It has been annnounced this week that the government will scrap or overhaul over 3,000 regulations in help British businesses recover from the recession.

In these tough times, businesses need to focus on creating jobs and growth without being tied up in unnecessary red tape.

The coalition govenment has listened to business’s concerns and are determined to put common sense back into areas like health and safety to reduce the costs and fear of burdensome inspections.

Conservative Business Minister Michael Fallon has announced that shops, offices, pubs and clubs will no longer face burdensome health and safety inspections. From April 2013, binding new rules on both the Health & Safety Executive and local authorities will exempt hundreds of thousands of businesses from burdensome health and safety inspections.

Health and safety rules designed for businesses operating in a dangerouse environment should never have been applied to those who simply do not face such risks. In the future, only businesses which operate in high-risk areas, or have a poor record, will be inspected.

In addition, from next month, the Government will change the law so companies will only be liable for civil damages in health and safety cases if they have shown to be negligent. This constitutes a welcome change to the current law that businesses can automatically be liable for damages, if there is a workplace accident, even if they are not proven to be negligent.

Conservatives in Government are also taking radical action on red tape in a further measure to boost economic growth. Through the Red Tape Challenge, the government is systematically examining some 6,500 substantive regulations and are committed to abolishing or substantially reducing at least 3,000 of these regulations. Identification of the regulations to be scrapped or overhauled will be completed by December 2013.

Business Minister Michael Fallon said:

“Cutting red tape shows the Government is serious about helping business to flourish. We’re getting out of the way by bringing common sense back to health and safety.”

Comments

Jim said…
That will help, when they do end these regulations then is there a way to prevent future governments from re-introducing them?
2:23 pm
Jim said…
Cutting regulations is a great start. Carry on by reducing government, cutting spending, reducing taxes and raising interest rates.

In fact give the control of interest rates back, let it be set by the markets.

Please, let the market recover. Government intervention never works, stop taking any action, let the market heal itself. I know it means a smaller state, and less spending, but we can keep the essential services, and drop the dead weight.


The more a government or the bank of england interfere the worse things actually get. If a bank fails, then let it fail. Same for a business.

You really can not put out a fire with petrol.
5:35 pm
Jim said…
a really good book i can not recomend highly enough is "how an economy grows and why it crashes" by peter and andrew schiff.

Presented in a rather amusing and funny way, its not a long read, but leaves no doubt. It tells you simply (a ten year old gets it) how an economy grows and why it crashes
10:34 pm
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