HC Deb 15 April 1985 vol 77 cc14-6W
Mr. Galley

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many Acts of Parliament have been promoted and how many statutory instruments made by his Department, or predecessor Departments covering his area of responsibility in each of the last 20 years.

Mr. Butcher

The information requested is not held centrally within the Department and given the changes to the machinery of Government over the last 20 years some of the information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Following is the information which is readily available:

Year* Acts of Parliament
1983–84 4
1982–83 7
1981–82 7
1980–81 8
1979–80 9
1978–79 9
1977–78 6
1976–77 9
1975–76 8
1974–75 10
1973–74 4
1972–73 9
1971–72 10
1970–71 19
1969–70 7
Year† Statutory Instruments
1984 91
1983 117
Notes:
* Parliamentary Session.
† Calendary Year.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office publishes annually "Lists of Statutory Instruments" and "Tables and Indices to Public and General Acts and General Synod Measures". Both of these are currently up to date to the end of 1983.

TABLE 1 PQ 2568
Sales of Formulated Pesticides by United Kingdom Manufacturers*
£ thousands
No. of enterprises† 1984 1983 1984 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984
P 4th qtr 1st qtr R 2nd qtr R 3rd qtr R 4th qtr R
Pesticides:
Insecticides (other than seed dressings):
Containing organo-phosphorus compounds 12 46,351 57,960 8,638 13,929 21,181 12,184 10,666
Containing organo-chlorine compounds 9 14,457 16,725 4,106 5,501 3,453 2,792 4,979
Other 12 82,516 101,383 10,746 23,097 31,189 21,682 25,415
Rodenticides 4 1,162 1,156 368 278 277 331 270
Seed dressings (containing fungicides only or fungicide and insecticide) and sheep and cattle dips 4 5,496 5,272 974 683 1,647 1,563 1,379
Other pesticides (incl. nematocides) 4 2,255 2,185 676 579 789 266 551
Preparations for plant control (eg rooting compounds, anti-sprouting products, fruit setting and dropping compounds etc.):
Fungicides 9 36,194 53,567 9,216 15,871 18,599 4,036 15,061
Herbicides:
Containing phenoxy derivatives of acetic, propionic or butyric acids 7 58,206 71,088 10,088 23,817 23,293 10,579 13,399
Other 86,732 — 16,114 26,585 25,176 — 19,002
Other preparations for plant control 17 9,604 98,646 983 2,246 4,695 17,795 880
Unclassified sales (including work done) 2,597 — 745 790 729 — 746