The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was established on 28 June 2007. Its predecessors were the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) from 5 July 1995 to 10 June 2001 and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) from 11 June 2001 to 27 June 2007.
All statutory instruments are ‘made’ (signed) by Ministers or senior officials. Not all statutory instruments are required to be ‘laid’ before the House of Commons and House of Lords.
The records for the Department for Children, Schools and Families and its predecessors show only the numbers of statutory instruments made and not the numbers laid. The number of statutory instruments made each year since 1997 were as follows:
DfEE DfES DCSF 1997 70 — — 1998 144 — — 1999 231 — — 2000 164 — — 2001 91 100 — 2002 — 168 — 2003 — 142 — 2004 — 124 — 2005 — 150 — 2006 — 127 — 2007 — 113 44 2008 — — 132