To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many regulations his Department has (a) made and (b) revoked in the last 12 months. (167081)

Over the last year, DCMS made 61 statutory instruments and revoked 44. The majority of these new and revoked instruments (43 and 31 respectively) relate to the implementation of the Gambling Act 2005 which came fully into effect on 1 September 2007 and which simplified and modernised previous gambling legislation.