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BERR's Strategic Programme

The Business Plan 2008 - 11 sets out the department's aims and objectives for the next three years.

It's the department's job to help provide the environment in which business can succeed, so these plans will be adapted and reviewed to ensure business success as the world economy enters a more turbulent period.

All our plans reflect our commitment to business and show how we will;

• Focus on the issues which matter most to UK business
• Carry out our policy responsibilities in a business-friendly way
• Work with others to encourage long term wealth creation
• Draw on business expertise in finding solutions to the challenges we face as a society.

For a full version of the Business Plan 2008 - 11 please click the link below.

BERR business plan 2008-2011 (810KB)

 

 

The key elements of BERR’s Strategic Programme are as follows:

We promote the creation and growth of business and a strong enterprise economy. This includes work to strengthen the UK’s enterprise culture and environment, simplifying business support and delivering stronger regional economies through enhanced economic performance. This also includes UK Trade & Investment’s support for UK business to take full advantage of overseas opportunities and efforts to attract continued inward investment.

We lead the better regulation agenda. This includes work to reduce the administrative burden of regulation faced by business by 25 per cent, ensuring enforcement of regulation is consistent and proportionate and ensuring new regulations are only brought in when benefits justify the costs.

We champion free and fair markets, working with other countries to liberalise international markets and support development, developing rules to maintain competition and promote competitive business environments in the UK and
EU, and to empower employees and consumers.

Our work on energy includes promoting competitive, transparent energy markets in the UK, EU and internationally, creating an effective carbon market and supporting low carbon technologies, tackling fuel poverty, and enabling sustainable energy infrastructure development,for example through planning reforms. We also manage a number of historic energy liabilities.

We are the shareholder in a number of Government-owned businesses (such as the Royal Mail) that make a significant contribution to the UK economy.

We will be publishing a formal business plan for the Comprehensive Spending Review period (2008-2011) next year.