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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

moved Amendment No. 8: Page 1, line 10, at end insert ““or significant quantifiable cost in time”” The noble Baroness said: The amendment is fairly self-explanatory, so I shall not waste too much of the Committee's time. In fact, it is to deal with time. I think that we would all agree that the time wasted on bureaucracy and form-filling in the public and private sectors has got worse every year and is becoming a greater and greater burden. The question is whether the Minister can explain what mechanisms he has in place to measure burdens that are costly in time but not in money. That may be an unusual question, but we felt that it was worth asking. In the voluntary sector, for example, a burden that requires endless bureaucracy and form-filling will not necessarily cost people money, because they are not being paid to do it, but there is a burden. I beg to move.