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Orders and Regulations

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice how many statutory instruments were (a) made, (b) repealed and (c) amended in each of the last five years. (143802)

The following table provides details of the number of UK statutory instruments made in each year from 2002 to 2006 and for the first five months of 2007:

Number of UK General SIs made by UK Government Departments

Number of UK Local SIs made by UK Government Departments

Number of UK SIs made by the National Assembly for Wales

Total number of UK Sis

2002

1,592

1,365

314

3,271

2003

1,512

1,521

321

3,354

2004

1,495

1,660

297

3,452

2005

1,580

1,746

273

3,599

2006

1,430

1,766

313

3,509

2007 (to end May)

683

747

130

1,560

Updated statistics in relation to statutory instruments are also available on the OPSI website at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si-statistics.htm. No records are maintained centrally of the number of statutory instruments that have been repealed and amended and this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.