Parliamentary Session

Mr. Baron

To ask the Leader of the House (1) how many hours the House sat in each session (a) in 1980, (b) in 1990 and (c) in each session between 1996 and 2006; (227355)

To ask the Leader of the House how many hours the House spent considering (a) primary legislation on the Floor of the House and (b) delegated legislation (i) in Committee and (ii) on the floor of the House in each session commencing in (A) 1980, (B) 1990 and (C) each session between 1996 and 2006.[Official Report, 10 November 2008, Vol. 482, c. 3MC.] (227367)

The information given in the table is available in the sessional information digests:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmsid.htm

*Number of hours the house sat each sessionNumber of hours considering primary legislation on the floor of the houseNumber of hours considering delegated legislation on the floor of the house*
	Hours	Minutes	Hours	Minutes	Hours	Minutes
1980-81	1,485	11	n/a		n/a
1990-91	1,373	53	393	64	65	50
1996-97	717	45	221	41	45	88
1997-98	2,117	36	859	45	42	65
1998- 99	1,378	50	458	64	36	62
1999-2000	1,442	41	640	66	31	88
2000-01	690	27	283	36	26	82
2001-02	1,540	40	676	93	24	58
2002-03	1,287	15	484	53	18	12
2003-04	1,215	19	460	89	14	35
2004-05	531	16	216	15	9	30
2005-06	1,572	07	701	79	18	09
2006-07	1,118	52	367	04	17	61
n/a = Not available. Up until the 1984-85 session the sitting hours were not broken down. Therefore, only the total number of sitting hours can be provided.

The number of hours considering primary legislation and delegated legislation in committee can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 480: debated on Thursday 16 October 2008