More details have emerged about the new agency that will join up the Employment Service with parts of the Benefits Agency.A private sector businessman has been drafted in to oversee the design of the new ‘working age’ agency.

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Policy makers are ignoring Government guidance to ‘think small’ when drafting regulations, according to research from the Better Regulation Task Force.High among its criticisms is that Government departments are working in isolation and failing to work together to mitigate the impact of their separate regulations on small businesses.

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