Kirit Patel becomes a Government adviser on better regulation
Kirit Patel, chief executive of the Day Lewis pharmacy group, has been appointed to the Better Regulation Task Force.
The BRTF was established by the Cabinet Office in 1997 to advise the
Government on how to ensure that regulation and its enforcement accord
with five principles — proportionality, accountability, consistency,
transparency and targeting.
Mr Patel has already served two terms on another Government advisory
body — the Small Business Council — and was invited to apply
for the new appointment by BRTF chairman David Arculus.
Mr Patel is concerned by the impact of regulation on small businesses
and has told the Prime Minister that he wants Government policy to be
less disjointed. “We are hit from different sides by water regulations,
health and safety requirements, etc,” he said.
In the Day Lewis group, he can see that the requirements placed on small
business at the individual shop level do not always line up with those
he sees from the bigger business perspective at head office level. “Somewhere
in the line there needs to be some tweaking, rather than just a broad-brush
approach,” he said.
As a member of the SBC, Mr Patel pressed for better financial succession
planning for small business so that proprietors are not penalised when
they want to plan for retirement and hand on their businesses. An announcement
on this was made in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s budget speech
earlier this year. “My experience at the SBC is that civil servants
do listen if you present them with pragmatic examples of how to achieve
a win-win situation,” Mr Patel said.
Mr Patel has been a member of the National Pharmaceutical Association
management board for 13 years, and is a past Council member and Treasurer
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. |
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