•Cut red tape by introducing a ‘one-in, one-out' rule whereby no new regulation is brought in without other regulation being cut by a greater amount;
• End the culture of ‘tick-box' regulation, and instead target inspections on high-risk organisations through co-regulation and improving professional standards;
• Review IR 35, as part of a wholesale review of all small business taxation, and seek to replace it with simpler measures that prevent tax avoidance but do not place undue administrative burdens or uncertainty on the self-employed, or restrict labour market flexibility;
•Review employment laws to ensure they maximise flexibility while protecting fairness and providing the competitive environment required for enterprise to thrive;
•Make it easier for people to set up new enterprises by cutting the time it takes to start a new business;
•Promote small business procurement, in particular by introducing an aspiration that 25 per cent of government contracts should be awarded to small and medium-sized businesses and by publishing government tenders in full online and free of charge;
•End the so-called ‘gold-plating' of EU rules, so that British businesses are not disadvantaged relative to their European competitors.