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Written by Dr Eamonn Butler
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Friday, 30 September 2005 |
Concentrating the UK's new regulations into two batches each year
was supposed to reduce confusion, but it doesn't seem to have worked.
At least, not for the government, which still seems confused.
On the eve of Red Tape Day, our regulation boffin Tim Ambler –
co-author of the Deregulation paper in our Roadmap to Reform series –
rang the Better Regulation Executive to ask which new regulations were
coming into force, but their spokesman did not even know that Red Tape
Day was looming, much less what regulations might be included.
There are so many regulatory bureaucracies – the Better
Regulation Commission, the Better Regulation Executive, the Better
Regulation Task Force – that the regulators themselves don’t seem to
know what’s going on. How is someone trying to run a small business
expected to keep up with this tide of red tape?. Quis Custodiet Ipsos
Custodes?
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