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Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 September 2025

Debate

Making Tax Digital

Contribution

My Lords, in the Government’s plan for SMEs, Backing Your Business, they claim that they are prioritising growth and productivity potential—good news. However, in a Written Answer last week to the noble Baroness, Lady Maclean of Redditch, the Government revealed that they have no idea of the level of cumulative administrative costs of regulation for small business. Does the Minister agree that before his Government impose yet more onerous regulations on small businesses, such as through the Employment Rights Bill, they should find out the existing costs of their regulatory onslaughts and do something about them?

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