Government moves to free businesses' hands from red tape

摘要

A scheme asking firms to make public their bureaucratic bugbears has launched, promising to cut back unnecessary regulation. But will it work? It is finally here. For those of you, and there have been plenty, that are fed up to the back teeth of red tape, it appears the government has been listening. Last month, it opened a new website, www.red-tapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk, asking for consumers and businesses to give an opinion on unnecessary regulations, with a view to ultimately reducing the 21,000 UK regulations currently in force.