As a follow up to the Norfolk Chamber’s ‘Audience with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’ event on the 7 November, we submitted a number of questions from our members to the Chancellor. Responses to those questions are now starting to be received from the relevant Ministers within Westminster.
Tim Green is Site Manager of Briar Chemicals Ltd. The Norwich based company have been members of the Chamber for around two-and-a-half years.
Tim’s question to the Chancellor was:
“We are a Norwich based company with 240 employees and a turnover of more than £45m. Our market is more than 95 percent export based. Our future success relies on our ability to respond quickly and clearly to customer requests. For any change we need comments from the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency and planning permission. These steps take too long- in a recent case HSE took 10 months to comment (positively) on a minor change. What is the government doing to speed up these processes and make the timescales more rigorous?”
Find on the attached document the written response from the Department for Work and Pensions.
