HC Deb 10 December 2001 vol 376 c658W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many regulations affecting business have been abolished since 1997. [20126]

Ms Hewitt

Records relating to the regulations introduced since 1997, which would provide details of how these regulations related to existing regulations, showing how they amended or abolished them, are held not centrally but by the management units responsible for the policy areas concerned. They could be assembled and analysed only at disproportionate cost.