The Better Regulation Executive is a part of the British

Department for Business and Trade The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It was established on 7 February 2023 by a February 2023 British cabinet resh ...

. It is in charge of regulatory reform across the

British Government His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government or otherwise UK Government, is the central government, central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

. A forerunner of the Executive was the Better Regulation Commission. The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) was created in 2005 to lead the regulatory reform agenda across the UK Government by working to reduce and remove unnecessary regulation for the public, private and voluntary sectors. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. In July 2007 the BRE moved from the Cabinet Office to become part of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), and then its successor, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and then its successor, the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). It became part of the Department of Business and Trade (DBT) in 2023.

Policy

The Better Regulation Executive's purpose is to balance the priorities of protecting people's

rights Rights are law, legal, social, or ethics, ethical principles of freedom or Entitlement (fair division), entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal sy ...

health Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, p ...

and

safety Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings The word 'safety' entered the English language in the 1 ...

and freeing them from unnecessary

bureaucracy Bureaucracy ( ) is a system of organization where laws or regulatory authority are implemented by civil servants or non-elected officials (most of the time). Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments ...

, working to reduce the costs of compliance for

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for ...

es, as well as charities and community groups, and to minimize the impact of regulations on economic growth. Actions taken: *controlling the number of new regulations by operating a ‘one in, three out’ rule for business regulation *assessing the impact of each regulation *reviewing the effectiveness of

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

regulations *reducing regulation for small businesses *improving enforcement of government regulations *using alternatives to regulation *reducing the cost of EU regulation on UK

References

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External links

Better Regulation Executive
official website Department for Business, Innovation and Skills