Departmental Orders and Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many statutory instruments have been (a) made and (b) revoked by Ministers in his Department since 1997. (204770)

Since 1997 Ministers in DCMS have made the following number of statutory instruments each calendar year.

	Number
1997	27¹
1998	23
1999	23
2000	19
200	17
2002	31
2003	28
2004	32
2005	49
2006	58
2007	65
2008	11²
¹ Eight prior to 1 May, 19 thereafter. ² To 15 May 2008

The number of statutory instruments revoked by Ministers in DCMS since 1997 can be ascertained only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 476: debated on Wednesday 21 May 2008