Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform annual report and accounts, including the Annual Departmental Report and Consolidated Resource Accounts.

  • Great Britain. Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Date:
2008
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Credit: Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform annual report and accounts, including the Annual Departmental Report and Consolidated Resource Accounts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We are committed to boosting productivity and keeping the UK economy competitive and equipped to respond to the opportunities and challenges of the future. This includes taking the right decisions to ensure that the UK is an attractive place to do business as we move through the current challenging economic climate. We negotiate in the EU and internationally, working for business and for the benefit of consumers and employees, to deliver free and fair markets which support competition and investment. We aim to ensure secure, safe energy supplies at competitive prices while tackling climate change. We work to reduce the burden of regulation on business and the public and third sectors. We manage the UK's energy liabilities, and work with all departments to improve the Government's performance as a shareholder in businesses. We promote enterprise and stronger regional economies. The Department works across Government to ensure that Government policy is informed by a better understanding of its impact on business and the UK's competitive position. This report sets out the performance of the Department over the past year in terms of achievements against objectives and financial results. Significant progress has been made in the past year and specific achievements include: e@ Delivering the Enterprise Strategy, which is designed to unlock entrepreneurial talents, boost enterprise skills and knowledge, help new and existing businesses get funding to start up and grow, and ease the burden of regulation. e Identifying measures to deliver net reductions in administrative burdens on business worth over £1 billion per annum. e Delivering the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 to improve protection for consumers and advocacy through a new National Consumer Council. @ Setting out the UK's domestic and international energy policy in the 2007 Energy White Paper, in order to address long term challenges including tackling climate change and ensuring that the UK has secure supplies of energy. e Publishing the 2008 Nuclear White Paper which sets out a timetable of facilitative actions that will deliver a framework enabling energy companies to begin construction of the first new nuclear power station in 2013-14 and start operation in 2017-20.
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