Measures that will reduce the bureaucratic burden on holding charity events have been promised in the government's Spring Budget.

The Chancellor announced measures including sector-specific reviews of regulation from next month, with volunteer events being in the first tranche of reviews.

Around 1,500 regulations had been examined in the Red Tape Challenge, the Chancellor advised, with over half identified as needing to be scrapped or improved.

The coalition also announced that it aims to scrap or improve 84 per cent of health and safety regulation, including measures taken in 2012, "so that ‘strict liability’ provisions in health and safety law will no longer hold employers to be in breach of their duties when they have done everything that is reasonably practicable and foreseeable to protect their employees".