Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many meetings (a) ministers and (b) officials of her Department have had with (i) ministers and (ii) officials in the (A) Home Office and (B) Ministry of Justice to discuss retained EU law in the context of the Government's proposals for the removal of illegal migrants to Rwanda.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Ministers and officials at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) have not had any meetings with ministers or officials at the Home Office or Ministry of Justice to discuss retained EU law (REUL) (now known as assimilated law), in the context of the removal of illegal migrants to Rwanda, although DBT officials regularly engage with both departments as a matter of course on their intentions for REUL/assimilated law falling within their areas of responsibility.
DBT is committed to working with any other government department to make the most of our freedoms outside the EU.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many items of retained EU law were (a) revoked and (b) assimilated before 1 January 2024.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
At the end of 2023, approximately 700 pieces of Retained EU Law (REUL) were revoked via schedule 1 of the Act (“the revocation schedule”) and subsequent secondary legislation. Unless actively revoked, no REUL was sunset and instead became “assimilated law” after the end of 2023.
The Retained EU Law Dashboard is the government’s public catalogue of each piece of REUL confirmed by government departments, and their status. The dashboard currently features 5020 pieces of REUL and will be updated in January 2024, in line with our statutory commitments in the REUL Act and alongside the forthcoming first REUL parliamentary report.