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<p>The amount spent on the Red Tape Challenge by the Cabinet Office in each year since
its inception is shown below.</p><p> </p><p>FY 2016/17 £124,600</p><p>FY 2015/16 £297,855</p><p>FY
2014/15 £829,368</p><p>FY 2013/14 £139,526</p><p>FY 2012/13 £465,172</p><p>FY 2011/12
£176,357</p><p> </p><p>The Red Tape Challenge programme was launched by the Cabinet
Office in 2011 and ran until 2015. Its purpose was to help deliver the then Prime
Minister’s and the coalition Government’s commitment to be the first government to
leave with the overall burden of regulation on business reduced.</p><p> </p><p>Each
Department in Government was challenged to identify out-of-date, obsolete or unnecessary
regulations around a series of themes and sectors. The Red Tape Challenge had, by
2014, identified over 3,000 regulations to scrap or improve, delivering estimated
savings to UK businesses of over £850m per year as a result of the programme.</p><p>
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