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Authors Jonathan McMahon and William Mason, who worked in the Labour government's Better Regulation Task Force, say the savings would be found by targeting the "spider's web" of regulations imposed by 10 Downing Street.

Cabinet Office Report - Better Regulation Task Force and Regulatory Creep Sub-Group - 2004: 'Avoiding Regulatory Creep') II.

Regulatory budgets were suggested by the Better Regulation Task Force three years ago.

According to the Compensation Recovery Unit, claims for compensation against employers as a result of accidents at work have not increased but, in fact, have fallen year on year each year in the last five, and the Government's Better Regulation Task Force has concluded that despite the prevalence of `no win ( no fee' arrangements, the total cost of compensation has remained more or less static since 1989.

A report by the Better Regulation Task Force last summer argued that the compensation culture was just a myth.

Commenting on the Better Regulation package announced in the Budget, IoD Regional Director for the North West, Laura Wolfe, said: 'The IoD supports the government's endorsement of the Hampton Review and the Better Regulation Task Force report' If the government manages to implement these proposals, business will be very happy.

The Better Regulation Task Force, which the Prime Minister commissioned last year to find ways to cut bureaucracy, said Britain's national turn-over could rise by one per cent.

From 1997 to 2002, Lord Haskins was chairman of the UK Government's Better Regulation Task Force and is currently a board member of regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.