Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 58401

Small Businesses: Regulation

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of regulation on small and medium-sized enterprises since 2010.

Answer

Justin Madders
Businesses have told us that regulation can be too complex, stifle progress and innovation and the accumulation of poorly designed regulation over decades is a burden to comply with. Our recently published Action Plan for Regulation will aim to reduce the...
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