Question follow-through · 23619
Business: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the net monetary value to business was of the removal of regulation in each year from 2010 to 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the net monetary value to business was of the removal of regulation in each year from 2010 to 2024.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Business Impact Target BIT, which was repealed by the previous government through the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act, was the principal mechanism through which government made an estimate of the change in the total annual cost of regulati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Small Businesses: Domestic Visits
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Businesses: Closures
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed voluntarily in each month of the last five years.
Businesses: Closures
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of businesses that have closed involuntarily in each month of the last five years.
Business: Insolvency
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of voluntary business liquidations that have taken place each month of the last five years.
Business: Insolvency
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the number of involuntary business liquidations that have taken place each month of the last five years.
Cars: Manufacturing Industries
27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of (a) the adequacy of the level of UK car production and (b) the impact of that industry on the economy.
Doug Gurr
28 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings he has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Doug Gurr
28 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
Doug Gurr
28 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Trade Policy and Economic Security has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
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28 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what meetings the Minister for Industry has had with Doug Gurr since 4 July 2024.
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Department for Business and Trade: Written Questions
13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to provide an Answer to Question 26782 tabled by the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton on 27 January 2025.