<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>19839</id>
<session>2001-02</session>
<number>1728</number>
<title>Regulatory Burden On Business</title>
<proposer id="10658">Tim Yeo</proposer>
<date>2002-09-24</date>
<text>That this House notes that the Regulatory Reform Act came into force in April 2001; further notes that in February this year the Prime Minister promised 260 regulatory reform orders in his regulatory action plan; notes also that only six regulatory reform orders have so far been approved; further notes that the greatest complaint of British business is the costs and burden of red tape and bureaucracy on their activities; and calls on the Government to deliver the commitments made by the Prime Minister in February and reduce the regulatory burden on business.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10658">Tim Yeo</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>South Suffolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11308">Angela Watkinson</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upminster</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10580">Desmond Swayne</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10051">Crispin Blunt</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reigate</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10726">Henry Bellingham</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10713">Gregory Barker</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bexhill &amp; Battle</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10009">David Amess</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10901">Mark Francois</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rayleigh</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10884">Mark Field</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cities of London &amp; Westminster</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10964">Mark Hoban</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fareham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10503">Andrew Robathan</mp>
		<date>2002-09-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaby</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10670">Stephen O'Brien</mp>
		<date>2002-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eddisbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10643">David Wilshire</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Spelthorne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10920">Chris Grayling</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Epsom &amp; Ewell</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10228">Cheryl Gillan</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chesham &amp; Amersham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10397">Patrick McLoughlin</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10373">Peter Luff</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Worcestershire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10358">Julian Lewis</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10660">John Randall</mp>
		<date>2002-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Uxbridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2002-10-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10646">Ann Winterton</mp>
		<date>2002-10-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Congleton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11265">Hugo Swire</mp>
		<date>2002-10-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Devon</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10509">Marion Roe</mp>
		<date>2002-10-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2002-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10624">Nigel Waterson</mp>
		<date>2002-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eastbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11132">Andrew Murrison</mp>
		<date>2002-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Westbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10348">Eleanor Laing</mp>
		<date>2002-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Epping Forest</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10426">Theresa May</mp>
		<date>2002-10-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Maidenhead</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10559">Caroline Spelman</mp>
		<date>2002-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meriden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11109">Patrick Mercer</mp>
		<date>2002-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10240">James Gray</mp>
		<date>2002-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10221">Edward Garnier</mp>
		<date>2002-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10890">Adrian Flook</mp>
		<date>2002-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Taunton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10389">Anne McIntosh</mp>
		<date>2002-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Vale of York</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10955">Charles Hendry</mp>
		<date>2002-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11216">Andrew Selous</mp>
		<date>2002-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South West Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10770">Alistair Burt</mp>
		<date>2002-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Bedfordshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
