Businesses voice concern over Young's resignation
Concerns that health and safety and employment law plans may be
delayed following Lord Young's resignation have been voiced by
businesses.
David Cameron's 'Enterprise Tsar,' Lord Young was forced to
resign last week following his comments about the 'so-called
recession.'
Previously, he had been tasked with delivering a detailed report
on how to improve health and safety and employment law. The H&S
review, entitled ‘Common sense, Common safety’, put forward a
series of suggestions, all of which were accepted by Cameron.
Young was due to oversee the roll-out of the new policies, but
will no longer be able to do so, sparking concern for businesses
across the country.
Alexander Ehmann, Head of Parliamentary Affairs at the Institute
of Directors (IoD), said,
"Lord Young had a clear vision for the UK’s business environment
and was one of the few politicians willing to grapple with the
politically sensitive, but critical, issues of health and safety
and employment law reform."
Ehmann added that the greatest risk was that "Young's most
recent task as the Prime Minister’s Enterprise ‘Tsar’ will be
shelved.
"Asked to look at the barriers to growth that small and
medium-sized businesses face, Lord Young was well placed to offer a
welcome injection of enterprise culture into government
policy-making," said Ehmann.