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The Independent View: Red tape – action, not words

By Mark Prisk MP | Fri 4th June 2010 - 10:20 am

Mark Prisk is Minister of State for Business & Enterprise and is MP for Hertford & Stortford:

Cutting the burden of regulation is vital if we are to help the private sector grow. This is especially the case for small and medium sized enterprises that face disproportionate costs from unnecessary red tape.

Under Labour the burden of regulation grew inexorably, to the point that by the time of the May 2010 election it was implementing the equivalent of 14 new regulations every working day. The Federation of Small Businesses has worked out that this meant that the average small business is spending …

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