Question follow-through · 43694
Financial Services: Regulation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on whether compliance costs reported for financial regulations should be subject to periodic independent verification.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 9 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on whether compliance costs reported for financial regulations should be subject to periodic independent verification.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Apr 2025
Answer published
Following the announcement to cut the administrative costs of regulation on businesses by 25% by the end of this Parliament, the government is now taking forward a baselining exercise to understand how much regulation is costing and where it can be reform...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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