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Better Regulation at BIS

Cutting red tape and improving our regulation & policies is a key priority for BIS.

We aim where appropriate, for a light-touch regulatory environment, with less red tape and burdens on business, while protecting the public, consumers and employees.

We are reducing burdens on business through an ambitious programme based on the recommendations of the Philip Hampton and David Arculus reports.

Internally, BIS is working to ensure the principles of better regulation are maintained throughout our approach to policy-making at all levels throughout the Department. And on-going work in Brussels is helping to reform the EU regulatory environment.

In all this work our relationship with business is essential. We need business to tell us what’s wrong, and what needs to be sorted. We also need business to tell us when we have got it right.

On 14 December 2009 we published our fourth Better Regulation Simplification Plan. BIS Simplification Plan 2009: Delivering a Better Business Environment.

BIS simplification plan 2009: delivering a better business environmentPDF document (699KB)

The Departmental Annual Report and Accounts also includes each year a comprehensive picture of our regulatory reform achievements and goals

BERR: annual report and accounts 2009

BIS works in close collaboration with other Government departments, in particular, through its Better Regulation Executive, who are based in BIS and who have the lead responsibility for improving the regulatory environment across Whitehall.

Anderson Review of Government guidance - BIS list of most frequently used guidance.

The government response to the Anderson Review of government guidance committed departments to publishing a list of their most frequently used guidance by December 2009. The list below is the BIS of most frequently used guidance.

List of most frequently used guidanceWord document (135KB)

BIS has already made considerable progress towards the goal of migrating guidance for business to the Business Link website which fulfills another, longer term, commitment made in response to the Anderson recommendations. The list of the most frequently used guidance that can be found here is the top ten most visited pieces of guidance from the “Employing People” section of the Business Link website. Employment guidance is by far the most used area of BIS guidance.


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