Reducing bureaucracy for public sector frontline staff: Briefing for the ...

The 2007 public sector strategy ‘Cutting Bureaucracy
for Our Public Services’ seeks to reduce the amount
of unnecessary bureaucracy faced by frontline public
sector workers. Central to the strategy is a target to
reduce data requests made by central government
on the frontline by 30 per cent by 2010. Two years
into the programme we set out the reported progress
to-date and comment on the Better Regulation
Executive’s management of the strategy.