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Chris Grayling the employment minister is to promise a cut red tape in half in coming years to encourage businesses from going abroad (2 May 2012)
Date: 02/05/2012
With the fears that businesses would move abroad because of the red tape involved the employment minister Chris Grayling will promise to cut red tape in half over the next few years.
Mr Grayling would say that if jobs have to be saved or more jobs have to be created than one simple and straightforward choice was to recognise just how different and competitive the world has become.
Not just recognizing but it means that changes have to be made in response by lowering taxes and reducing bureaucratic interference for business, failing which jobs would just go elsewhere.
Mr Grayling's newest initiative was to tell the firms that they do not have to get their kettles and computers tested for electrical faults so often.
The Department of Work and Pensions will say many companies are duped into having frequent tests by electricians who falsely claim it is necessary under the law.
Other previous measures include cutting the number of health and safety inspections by a third, reducing requirements for businesses to report minor accidents and exempting a million self-employed people from the rules altogether.
Business groups have previously criticised the department for not slashing red tape quickly enough. The British Chambers of Commerce said in March that reducing reporting times for minor accidents was “tiny in the grand scheme of things”.