Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 74173

Small Businesses: Regulation

Tabled: 2 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

Conservative — Huntingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what recent progress he has made on reducing the administrative costs of regulation for businesses.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The Industrial Strategy included a package of ambitious forms that will contribute to the target to cut administrative burdens to businesses by 25% by the end of the parliament.These included harnessing the potential of new technology to make compliance w...
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