Government launches website to cut red tape

The government has introduced to website challenging the public to help cut unnecessary regulations.

For the first time, businesses will have a chance to have their say on regulations that affect their everyday processes.

Prime minister David Cameron says, ' We need to tackle regulation with vigour to free businesses to compete and create jobs.

'I want us to be the first government in modern history to leave office having reduced the overall burden of regulation, rather than having increased it.'

The first area to go under the microscope will be retail. Following this, every few weeks a new set of regulations, organised around themes, will open on the website for anyone to comment on.

Once a theme has closed to the public, ministers will have three months to explain why to regulation is still required, or it will be scrapped.

Business secretary Vince Cable says, ' I urge you to visit the website and take a few minutes to tell us the regulations you deal with on a daily basis. This is your chance to make sure that consumers are properly protected from unscrupulous traders or give us the evidence we need to remove the unnecessary bureaucracy that stops your business from growing.'