Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 107374

Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure

Tabled: 21 January 2026

Answered: 28 January 2026

Question

Mike Wood

Conservative — Kingswinford and South Staffordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 28 November 2025 to Question 92594 on Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure, whether any types of regulation are excluded from the regulation reduction target; and whether taxati

Answer

Blair McDougall

We have committed to reduce the administrative burden of regulation on businesses by £5.6bn by the end of this Parliament. As set out in the Regulation Action plan progress update in October 2025, Taxes, duties, levies and charges administered by HMRC are...

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