Scotland Office: Legislation

(asked on 21st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation their Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Alister Jack Portrait
Alister Jack
Secretary of State for Scotland
This question was answered on 27th January 2022

This information is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structure in the past decade.

In the last 10 years, the Scotland Office has sponsored two pieces of primary legislation. These were the Scotland Acts of 2012 and 2016.

The Scotland Office has also sponsored 91 pieces of secondary legislation in this period. This figure includes Scotland Act Orders, which the department outlines in our annual reports. Scotland Act Orders implement, update or adjust Scotland's devolution settlement. The Scotland Office have recently sponsored Scotland Act Orders relating to Civil Partnerships, Child Disability Payment and Adult Disability Payment.

The breakdown of the secondary legislation we have sponsored is outlined below:

Year

Number of pieces of secondary legislation sponsored by the Scotland Office

2012

6

2013

8

2014

10

2015

15

2016

8

2017

7

2018

11

2019

7

2020

6

2021

10

2022

3 pieces so far this year.

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