7th Report - Industrial Strategy
Select Committee
Business and Trade Committee
HC 727
6 June 2025
Government response
4th Special Report - Industrial Strategy: Government Response · published 12 Sep 2025
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
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Recommendation
Rejected
Expand the Regulatory Innovation Office to resolve business regulatory conflicts and ensure coherence.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Regulatory Innovation Office should be expanded to act as a clearing house for regulatory conflicts and give businesses a place to report conflicting regulations. We recommend that this expanded Regulatory Innovation Office sits within the Cabinet …
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Government Response Summary
The government stated there are no current plans to change the department or scope of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), directly rejecting the recommendation to expand its role, relocate it to the Cabinet Office, and enhance ministerial oversight.
Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation
Rejected
Require Prime Minister to chair quarterly Growth Mission Board meetings and review strategy progress.
Recommendation
Finally, it is crucial that the industrial strategy and the wider growth mission has clear support from the Prime Minister. As such we recommend that the Prime Minister chairs quarterly sessions of the Growth Mission Board and that progress on …
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Government Response Summary
The government rejects the recommendation for the Prime Minister to chair quarterly sessions of the Growth Mission Board, stating that the Chancellor chairs the Board, and the Prime Minister engages with the Growth Mission via other means.
Department for Business and Trade
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