Take the Red Tape challenge!

01 December 2012

We’re big fans of the Government’s “Red Tape Challenge”, an initiative which seeks to reduce the burden of administration which often seems to hamperUK business and the wider society as a whole. The website offers the opportunity for all to tell Government which regulations (of which there are an astonishing 21,000) are working and which are not; what should be scrapped, what should be saved and what should be simplified. Every few weeks, the site publishes regulations affecting one specific sector or industry and invites comment. Ministers then have 3 months to determine which regulations to keep and why, the default presumption being that burdensome regulations will disappear unless a very good case can be made to the contrary. So if you’ve been frustrated by red tape, whether in a business, personal or volunteering context, then jump online and have you say!