Oliver Letwin: environmental rules could be 'great deal simpler'

Minister leading the 'red tape challenge' acknowledges for the first time his desire to cut thousands of pages of green regulations and guidance, but claims every single regulation is necessary

Cabinet office minister Oliver Letwin revealed on Tuesday that he thinks environmental guidance and regulation could be a "great deal simpler". That fits pretty closely with the direction I was told he gave privately to environmental officials to slash thousands of pages of regulation and guidance down into 50 pages, as "worked very well" in the goverment's highly controversial planning proposals.

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