HC Deb 14 January 2003 vol 397 c594W
Mrs. Calton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Statutory Instruments subject to negative procedure made by his Department(a) came into force and (b) were considered by a delegated legislation committee in each of the last three sessions. [88028]

Hilary Benn

Details of the Statutory Instruments (SIs) made each session by Home Office Ministers, which came into force, are not held and such information could not be made available other than at disproportionate cost. However, statistics on the number of negative instruments made by Home Office Ministers each year, are kept. The numbers for negative instruments for each of the past three years are as follows, none have been annulled.

Negative instruments
Year Number of SIs made
2000 73
2001 61
20021 60
1 Provisional figure

The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments considers all negative Statutory Instruments once they have been made.