HC Deb 22 July 2004 vol 424 cc490-1W
Mr. Connarty

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the evidential basis was for the statement in the Cabinet Office Synthesis Report of October 2002, Improving the Way the UK handles European Legislation, page 2, that around 50 per cent. of significant legislation enacted in the UK originates from the European Union. [184992]

Mr. Alexander

The evidential base for this statement was an analysis of Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs), which showed that about half of all measures that imposed non-negligible costs on business, charities and the voluntary sector originated from the European Union.