Question follow-through · 129228
Small Businesses: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 25% administration reduction target set out in the Regulation Action Plan on the baseline annual compliance costs of small and medium-sized en
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 25% administration reduction target set out in the Regulation Action Plan on the baseline annual compliance costs of small and medium-sized en
28 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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28 Apr 2026
Answer published
We have established a baseline of the annual administrative burden of regulation on UK businesses, including SMEs. As set out in the technical annex to the policy paper ‘A new approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth’, we used a pragmat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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