The Government has launched a website allowing employers to nominate which regulations should be scrapped to make running a business easier.
The Your Freedom site will also ask the public which laws they would like to see abolished. A third (33%) of small business owners say regulation was the biggest barrier to growth in 2009, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). It has welcomed the Government's launch of Your Freedom, and has set up its own portal to encourage member feedback on regulations they would like to see removed. A new Cabinet committee chaired by Business Secretary Vince Cable also met for the first time yesterday to discuss reducing the heavy burden of red tape on business. FSB pol...
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