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New Chair's Statement

Tuesday, 16th Feb 2010 | Author: Sir Don Curry

I am really looking forward to my new responsibility of chairing the Better Regulation Executive and working with the team to tackle the challenges that we will face over the next few years.

We are at an exciting point in time, with a gener...

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A New Face for Better Regulation

Thursday, 3rd Dec 2009 | Author: Philip Rycroft

As the economy moves out of recession, our better regulation agenda will be crucially important. Across Government we recognise that regulation creates costs for business as well as bringing benefits, and that too much regulation, or regulation that is poorly designed, will hold back the growth we need to restore the economy and public finances. So while we will inevitably need to bring in further new regulations to meet new challenges in the coming years, we must do so in a carefully managed way, regulating only where other approaches cannot deliver the outcomes we want to achieve and doing so in a way that keeps things as simple as possible for the people who have to comply.

But sometimes it helps to have a champion to bring...

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