Criminal Offences

Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new criminal offences have been created in legislation drawn up by his Department since 1997. [109537]

Mr. Hutton
The Department of Health has created 74 criminal offences in legislation passed since 1997, of which 26 criminal offences replace those contained in earlier legislation. A list of the legislation and the offences has been placed in the Library.