Statutory Instruments

HC Deb 16 February 1993 vol 219 c113W

Ms. Corston

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many statutory instruments were laid before Parliament by his Department in each year since 1980.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The following number of statutory instruments were laid before Parliament by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the years 1980 to 1992:

	Number
1980	30
1981	45
1982	22
1983	21
1984	22
1985	28
1986	20
1987	27
1988	31
1989	24
1990	24
1991	10
1992	23