Coming of age: what next for the UK regulatory reform agenda?

Emmanouil Schizas, October 2010. This report considers how regulation can possibly still be a major concern for small and medium-sized enterprises in a country such as the UK, whose regulatory reform programme is considered to be world-class. Based on a template of regulation-as-taxation, it builds on first principles to discuss the fundamental shortcomings of the UK's Better Regulation programme and how it can be reformed.