HL Deb 24 February 2004 vol 658 cc55-8WA
The Countess of Mar

asked Her Majesty's Government:

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Department/Public Authority General Local General Local General Local General Local General Local General Local
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Ministry of 115 12 111 5 89 38 65 232
Attorney General's Department 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Building Societies Commission 4 0 5 0
Cabinet Office 3 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0
Constitutional Affairs, Dept for 42 6
Culture. Media and Sport, Dept for 23 0 22 0 16 0 16 0 29 0 26 0
Customs and Excise, Her Majesty's 12 0 14 0 9 0 20 0 25 0 23 0
Defence, Ministry of 2 0 3 0 17 0 10 0 10 0 9 0
Deputy Prime Minister, Office of the 38 16 83 29
Education and Employment, Dept for 146 27 209 25 150 16 85 6
Education and Skills. Dept for 95 5 160 8 130 12
Electoral Commission 0 66 0 30
Environmenl, Food and Rural Affairs, Dept for 78 141 124 2 109 2
Environment, Transport and the Regions, Dept of the 250 1,365 250 1,428 297 1,511 132 716
Foreign & Commonwealth Office 2 0 4 0 7 0 4 0 5 0 3 0
Forestry Commission 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Friendly Societies Commission 3 0 0 0 1 0
General Synod Office 6 0 6 0 6 0 4 0 3 0 4 0
Health, Dept of 175 0 173 0 218 0 399 0 393 1 194 0
Home Office 93 14 87 9 123 3 121 1 117 2 144 1
Inland Revenue 10 0 29 0 39 0 27 0 21 0 38 0
International Development, Dept for 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
Lord Chancellor's Department 63 29 106 12 110 13 137 14 59 3 65 1
National Statistics, Office for 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern Ireland Office 22 0 21 0 13 0 20 0 7 0 15 0
Privy Council Office 129 0 139 1 133 0 117 1 121 0 126 0

Whether they will list, by department, the number of statutory instruments issued each year since 1997. [HL1334]

Lord Bassam of Brighton

The number of statutory instruments issued, by department, for 1998–2003 and numbered in the UK series is shown in the attached table. No breakdown is available for 1997, during which a total of 3,114 instruments were issued, as an electronic database was not implemented until 1998. The table shows the number of instruments split by those of a general and local nature. For completeness the table includes the number of instruments made by the National Assembly for Wales in relation to the devolved matters but which are issued as part of the UK statutory instrument series.

The statistics provided will in future be kept up to date on HMSOnline at www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si-statistics.htm

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Department/Public Authority General Local General Local General Local General Local General Local General Local
Scottish/Scotland Office 172 172 136 74 5 0 10 0 4 0 4 0
Social Security, Dept of 59 0 90 0 106 0 71 0
Trade and Industry, Dept of 132 1 170 0 135 0 124 0 127 0 139 3
Traffic Director for London 0 65 0 56 0 22
Transport, Dept for 72 623 127 1,438
Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Dept for 113 819 84 644
Treasury H.M. 60 0 95 1 112 0 187 3 91 0 130 0
Welsh/Wales Office 69 78 77 64 1 0 4 0 3 0 2 0
Work and Pensions, Dept for 36 0 96 0 93 0
National Assembly for Wales (NAW) 29 29 119 110 241 91 197 117 210 111
Totals 1,556 1,763 1,784 1,704 1,711 1,713 2,118 2,029 1,789 1,482 1,721 1,633
Total of UK SIs 3,319 3,488 3,424 4,1471 3,271 3,354
Total of UK SIs (excluding NAW SIs) 3,319 3,430 3,195 3,8151 2,967 3,033
1 The number of instruments issued during 2001 included 597 UK Government SIs and 36 National Assembly for Wales Sis which related directly to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.