written question – answered on 10 January 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when he last met officials of the Better Regulation Executive to discuss the reduction of regulatory burdens on industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) what estimate he has made of the financial effect on UK industry of changes in the level of the burden of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what progress has been made in developing methods to measure the impact of regulatory burden reduction in those areas...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what progress has been made by the Better Regulation Executive in working with industry to reduce regulatory burdens.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many businesses his Department has consulted to identify areas for potential regulatory burden reduction in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) what steps his Department is taking to determine the effects of reductions in regulatory burdens on businesses...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) by what mechanisms his Department measures the effectiveness of the means by which businesses are made aware of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many farmers in Copeland have declared bankruptcy over the last 20 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what proportion of commercial fishermen in (a) England, (b) the north-west and (c) Copeland have been declared...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what effect the Review of the Postal Services Sector announced in his written ministerial statement of 17 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) what the staffing establishment was at the main post office in Church Street, Peterborough, on 31 December (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of whether the South East of England Regional Development Agency offers value for money.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of the likely effect on the UK restaurant trade of skilled chefs from abroad needing to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many small to medium sized businesses there were in each region of the UK in each of the last 20 years.