questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Regulation Action Plan - Progress Update and Next Steps, of 22 October 2025, if he will place in the Library a copy of the evidential basis for the administrative burden of regulation on businesses baseline; and whether the target to reduce the annual administrative burden by £5.6 billion is a net or gross reduction relative to that baseline.
answerText: The Government published the evidential basis for the baseline of the administrative burden of regulation on business on gov.uk in the Technical Annex (25% Target Methodology) published alongside the Regulation Action Plan Progress Update on 22 October 20...
heading: Business: Regulation