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Business and Voluntary Organisations: Regulation

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 6 May 2025UIN 49060

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43474 on Business: Regulation, whether the target to reduce the cost of compliance will be net of the cost of regulation on (a) business and (b) the v

Answered by Justin Madders

As the Prime Minister has committed to, the government will cut the administrative costs of regulation to business by 25% by the end of this Parliament. We will publish the approach to measuring these administrative costs in due course.

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