§ Lord Inglewoodasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many pieces of United Kingdom secondary legislation and how many pieces of European Union secondary legislation came into force in 1997. [HL1344]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThree thousand, one hundred and fourteen statutory instruments were made in 1997, of which 1,663 were general instruments. It is not known how many of these were to implement European Union legislation, but, in 1996, 80 of the 1,832 general instruments were for that purpose. One thousand, eight hundred and forty-five pieces of secondary legislation were made by the EU institutions in 1997, but a further 1,124 such pieces were repealed or expired leaving a net increase of 721.