Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 49060

Business and Voluntary Organisations: Regulation

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 6 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43474 on Business: Regulation, whether the target to reduce the cost of compliance will be net of the cost of regulation on (a) business and (b) the v

Answer

Justin Madders
As the Prime Minister has committed to, the government will cut the administrative costs of regulation to business by 25% by the end of this Parliament. We will publish the approach to measuring these administrative costs in due course.