Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on the Cutting Red Tape programme since 2015.

The Cutting Red Tape Programme ran from 2015 – 2016 and published six sector based reviews of regulations. There have been no new Cutting Red Tape reviews since 2016.

The published reports presented a series of findings to the responsible policy Departments who then worked with their stakeholders and regulators to address those findings and implement any changes. The Government is currently considering its approach to regulatory reform in the current Parliament.