A House of Commons Public Administration Committee, has heard from consultancy director and public procurement review author Colin Cram, on how the UK has benefitted from EU regulation with regulation being used as a scapegoat.

Colin said: “There can be improvements, but we have to be very careful we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater”.

A separate co-author of a report into public procurement, Jon Hughes, said: “a lot of people hide behind the EU rules and regulations. There is no reason at all why we cannot simplify a lot, why we cannot speed up a lot and take a lot of bureaucracy out.”