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The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform is ending its regulatory budgets scheme to consider the cost of red tape imposed on British businesses. Regulatory budgets meant government departments were supposed to estimate the total cost for businesses of implementing new regulations. Once a ceiling was reached …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    More likely shelved...

    ...because Mandy foresaw the headlines

    Watered down red tape = Pink ribbon

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Delete, rename or undo?

    "The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform"

    Oh, how they must have chuckled when they sat around and dreamed up that highly ambiguous name. Well, c'mon, it would have been a bit embarrassing to give it its more accurate title, Department of Deregulation for Rip off Britain.

    As for the comments by David Frost of the BCC, well Dave, you better get used to the idea that Lord Mandelslime is on a political survival mission and simply doesn't have time to listen to your grovelling special pleading. Maybe next time, eh?

    DELETE ALL !

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