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• Standardisation

  2 Sep 2010

  Effective standardisation fosters innovation, forceful competition and advances profitability, enabling a business to take a leading role in shaping the industry itself

• Further education and skills

  2 Sep 2010

  Skills are vital to our economy – they help businesses succeed and enable individuals to realise their potential. That’s why we’re reforming the further education and skills system to better meet the needs of learners and employers.

• Simplifying existing regulations

  2 Sep 2010

  The Government’s commitment to simplifying existing regulations in the UK and reducing the administrative burden they place upon businesses.

• Better Regulation Policy

  2 Sep 2010

  How the Government tries to achieve the aims of the better regulation agenda, to eliminate obsolete and inefficient regulation, create user-friendly new guidelines and tackle inconsistencies in the regulatory system.

• Improving Regulatory Delivery – putting business into the way we regulate

  2 Sep 2010

  Business is regulated and enforced by many different organisations. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) works with regulators, departments, Non Departmental Public Bodies and Local Authorities to simplify their approach, understand the business perspective and improve the perception of enforcement and regulation.

• Consultation guidance

  2 Sep 2010

  The Government has a Code of Practice on Consultation. This Code sets out what people can expect from the Government when it runs formal, written consultation exercises on matters of policy or policy implementation.

• Code of Practice on Guidance on Regulation

  2 Sep 2010

  A break down on the Code of Practice on Guidance on Regulation, which sets out eight golden rules that Government should follow, when publishing guidance for businesses and third sector organisations on how to comply with the law.

• Better Regulation Executive

  2 Sep 2010

  The UK Government has set out an ambitious programme to change the way we regulate. We are cutting out of date and unnecessary red tape to deliver greater accountability, better focused, better targeted and more effective protections. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) plays a lead role in driving through a programme of activities to simplify regulation.

• Better regulation

  2 Sep 2010

  The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) is part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and leads the regulatory reform agenda across government.

• Buying and selling goods and services

  2 Sep 2010

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) helps to draft and regulate many of the UK laws, regulations and guidelines on advertising, package travel and timeshare, pricing and product description that help protect consumers and businesses from unscrupulous practices.

• Economics, statistics and analysis

  1 Sep 2010

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) places statistics and analysis at the heart of policy-making. Economics plays a key role in policymaking in the Department. Economists advise on a range of policy issues, from productivity and competitiveness through to regional development and evaluation.

• Aerospace, Marine and Defence

  1 Sep 2010

  Working to promote the conditions for success of the UK aerospace, marine and defense industries.

• Annual Innovation Report

  31 Aug 2010

• Chemicals industry

  31 Aug 2010

  BIS's chemicals unit works with industry to promote productivity and competitiveness, and represents the interests of the UK chemicals (excluding pharmaceuticals), plastics and rubber processing industries in the development of government policy and regulation.