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BRIEFING - REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO ENTERPRISE - SUBMISSIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT’S TASKFORCE ON

12 Jul 2021

The report and the three submissions illustrate the scale of the challenge to achieve the prime minister’s objectives of driving innovation, reducing barriers to entry and improving the regulatory environment for small businesses. [...] It is not a coincidence —indeed, it’s precisely because of the mushrooming over the decades of regulation in the EU (and thus in the UK)— that of all the major economic areas in the world, the EU’seconomic growth has, over the past three decades, been the slowest: slower than any but a very few obvious outliers such as Zimbabwe and Venezuela. [...] From the Electoral Commission to the Charity Commission, and on, the attitude seems to be “we know best, our going-in suspicion is that you are in the wrong, you will do as we say.” The individual working as a regulator adopts a somewhat selfrighteous view of the world, assuming that they know better and that there is a strong possibility of malfeasance on the part of the regulated individual. [...] • Reducing the scope of the tasks of the Information Commissioner by removing broader policy advisory matters to focus on the implementation and enforcement of the relevant laws and regulations, increasing rigour in the scrutiny and accountability of the Information Commissioner. [...] This could be mitigated by the proposed reform whereby the UK would continue recognise and accept EU registrations and authorisations for chemicals and articles imported to GB, from NI and anywhere in the EEA, but the impact on supply of goods from GB to NI could be serious and illustrates the need to address the effects of the Northern Ireland Protocol on the UK internal market.
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United Kingdom