§ Mr. Galleyasked the Attorney-General how many Acts of Parliament have been promoted and how many statutory instruments made by the Lord Chancellor's Department in each of the last 20 years.
§ The Attorney-GeneralHer 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. Nearly all of these, if not all, contain enactments prepared by the Lord Chancellor's Department of the day.
Given the changes to the machinery of government over the last 20 years, apportionment of the Acts or statutory instruments to the areas of present ministerial responsibility could be done only at disproportionate cost.