{"id":260245,"date":"2025-03-17T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/rachel-reeves-summons-regulators-to-no-10-in-drive-for-cuts-to-red-tape\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T00:52:08","slug":"rachel-reeves-summons-regulators-to-no-10-in-drive-for-cuts-to-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/rachel-reeves-summons-regulators-to-no-10-in-drive-for-cuts-to-red-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves summons regulators to No 10 in drive for cuts to red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regulators are being summoned to No 10 on Monday to meet Chancellor Rachel Reeves as the government moves to slash bureaucracy and cut the cost of regulation for business by a quarter.<\/p>\n

The government will also announce plans to streamline environmental permitting and cut red tape it says blocks new housing and infrastructure, as well as unveil 60 regulator-agreed measures to boost economic growth.<\/p>\n

Her actions come alongside plans to scrap or slim down some regulators, and follow Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announcing last week that NHS England would be abolished.<\/p>\n

The Conservatives said Labour’s taxes and trade union red tape were harming growth and called on Reeves to set out a “real plan”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eight regulators including Natural England and the Environment Agency will meet the chancellor on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Today we are taking further action to free businesses from the shackles of regulation,” Reeves said. “By cutting red tape and creating a more effective system, we will boost investment, create jobs and put more money into working people’s pockets.”<\/p>\n

The meeting follows the government abolishing NHS England, the world’s biggest quango<\/a> – short for a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation – last week. <\/p>\n

In a statement on Monday, the government said “regulators must work for the people…not get in the way of progress”.<\/p>\n

Changes expected to be announced include streamlining the environmental regulatory process for major projects including Lower Thames Crossing (subject to planning approval) and future ones such as a Heathrow expansion.<\/p>\n

Environmental guidance, including hundreds of pages on bats, is expected to be reviewed, while environmental permits for some low-risk and temporary projects will be removed.<\/p>\n

This plan comes alongside 60 measures agreed upon by watchdogs “following weeks of intense negotiations” that are designed to make it easier to do business in the UK.<\/p>\n

Those measures include: <\/p>\n