Its Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill is intended to improve the competition regime and the protection of consumers and is currently with the House of Lords.
The proposal to cut the need for Criminal Records Bureau checks for adults working under supervision with children is part of the red tape-cutting Protection of Freedoms Bill currently being pored over in the Lords.
There is a panoply of amendments, one of which addresses the issue of cash payments by scrap metal dealers, courtesy of Lords Bradshaw and Faulkner of Worcester, who had tried to put a clause on this issue into the Protection of Freedoms Bill.