National Economic Council Sub-Committee on Better Regulation
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 29 October 2009
John Penrose (Shadow Minister (Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Business; Weston-Super-Mare, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
(1) what (a) regulations and (b) other proposals for new regulation the National Economic Council Sub-Committee on Better Regulation has considered since its establishment;
(2) how many times the National Economic Council Sub-Committee on Better Regulation has reported to the National Economic Council its conclusions on (a) regulation and (b) proposals for new regulation since its establishment;
(3) how many times the National Economic Council Sub-Committee on Better Regulation has met since April 2009.
Tessa Jowell (Minister of State, Cabinet Office; Dulwich & West Norwood, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
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