HC Deb 26 June 2001 vol 370 cc63-4W
Mr. Gibb

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will make it her policy to conduct an audit of the total cost of Government regulations to business and publish its findings. [742]

Nigel Griffiths

[holding answer 25 June 2001]: International organisations and companies regularly carry out surveys of the regulatory environment in this and other countries.

Among such surveys are the OECD Economic Outlook published in December 1999, The Economist Intelligence Unit Global Country Forecast, published in April, the CBI report "Creating a Europe that Works: A Study in Labour Market Flexibility", published in October 1999 and the GrowthPlus and Arthur Andersen report in January 2001.