”Delivering Simplification Plans” outlines more than 280 government initiatives to tackle red tape, more than one initiative for every working day.
Covering 19 departments and agencies, it shows Government is on target to hit its goal of saving business and the third sector over £3.5 billion in administrative costs by 2010.
Practical measures include the removal of the need for companies to hold an AGM, a faster process for planning consents, halving of the number of health and safety forms employers have to complete, and cutting of redundant licenses in a range of sectors.
Public sector workers benefited from a cut in the average length of a school inspection from five to two days and the introduction of hand-held data devices that will save individual police officers nearly an hour per day.
