Exceptional response to Red Tape Challenge in first week
Participation in the Government's bureaucracy-cutting
consultation, the Red Tape Challenge, has exceeded all of the
organisers' expectations in just the first week since its
launch.
The website of the Challenge - which has put the onus of
justification for items of bureaucracy on the ministers and
government departments behind them - has seen more than 6,000
suggestions and questions posted since its launch.
It is currently calling for feedback and suggestions on how it
can limit the red tape that surrounds the retail sector, and has
received suggestions that range from changes to the Sunday Trading
laws to bike safety.
The retail sector 'champion', Dr Kevin Hawkins, who has been
assigned the task of digesting and assimilating the ideas put
forward, said he was delighted with the responses but said that
there were still parts of the retail industry that he wanted to
hear more from, calling it "an opportunity that is too good to
miss".
"For the first time the Government wants to hear from those at
the sharp end of the complex, sometimes overwhelming, amount of
regulation," he said. "Tell us about those rules that really waste
your time and money or better still suggest ways of tackling the
issues that will make life better for you and your customers."