Published on BBC News Business, 28 July 2011
The government is to scrap or simplify more than half of all regulations that affect retailers, as part of its efforts to cut red tape.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said 130 out of the 257 regulations covering retail firms will be scrapped, and a further 30 will be simplified.
Ministers began an initiative this year to eventually scrutinise all of the 21,000 regulations across UK industry.
The Federation of Small Businesses backed the bid to cut bureaucracy…….Full story @ http://bbc.in/nAfE5X

