Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 19 December 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the red tape challenge.
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, regularly discusses the red tape challenge with the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend Mr Maude, at the Reducing Regulation Cabinet Sub-Committee (RRC), which he chairs.
The Government is making good progress with the red tape challenge target to identify, by end 2013, 3,000 regulations to scrap or reform. Almost 800 changes have already been implemented and are already saving businesses around £300 million per year, plus other further savings not yet quantified.
Day to day responsibility for the red tape challenge is shared between me as the Minister of State for Business and Energy, and the Minister for Government Policy, my right hon. Friend Mr Letwin, whom I meet regularly to receive updates from officials and discuss progress on implementation.
The full list of red tape challenge reforms and their associated cost saving for business will be published in early 2014 to Parliament and the general public.
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