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Departmental Orders and Regulations

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many statutory instruments have been (a) made and (b) revoked by Ministers in his Department and its predecessor since 1997. (204762)

The Department for Work and Pensions, which was formed on 8 June 2001 from parts of the former Department of Social Security, the former Department for Education and Employment and the Employment Service, has made a total of 659 statutory instruments since its formation.

Information on statutory instruments made before June 2001 and on statutory instruments revoked is not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.