Friend has given the House a list of orders and regulations subject to regulatory impact assessment. Unlike Britain, other countries in Europe do not even try to implement regulations that inflict tremendous on-costs on our business.
Friend makes an important point.
The Government must show a determination to achieve deregulation in British legislation, and demonstrate a willingness to impose the sunset clause structure on UK regulation. Otherwise, they could not argue in good conscience, to the European Commission and the European Council, that a similar structure should be imposed on European legislation. It is vital that we do that, because many of the measures to which I referred emanate from European legislation. I should clarify to my hon. Friend that I was not quoting from the Cabinet Office report.