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MPs call for post-Brexit regulatory reform to unleash R&D

           

Innovation taskforce says pace of technological change has created “huge opportunities” for less cumbersome regulation

Brexit offers a “one-off opportunity” to set out a bold new UK regulatory framework in fields such as clinical trials and space science, an influential group of MPs has said.

In a government-commissioned report from the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform, Conservative MPs Iain Duncan Smith, Theresa Villiers and George Freeman say the pace of global technological innovation has created “huge new opportunities and challenges for regulation”.

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