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unusual facts about red tape



Parliamentary Services Act

One MP from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition exasperatedly decried the amount of red tape required for MPs to hire research assistants, and another stated he was forced to use online websites such as Wikipedia for his research.


see also

New Labour, New Life For Britain

cut NHS waiting lists by treating an extra 100,000 patients as a first step by releasing £100 million saved from NHS red tape

Serfdom in Tibet controversy

Pico Iyer, a journalist whose father is a friend of the Dalai Lama and who has himself been in private conversation with him for over thirty years writes: "Almost as soon as he came into exile, in 1959, the Dalai Lama seized the chance to get rid of much of the red tape and serfdom that had beset Tibet in the past".