It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

We can get rid of red tape.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.