Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many post legislative reviews (a) their Department or (b) their predecessor Department has undertaken on (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation in each of the last five years.
Information on the number of pieces of primary and secondary legislation that have gone through post-legislative scrutiny by the department in the last five years is not held by a central team in Defra. It would therefore incur disproportionate costs to obtain this information in full. We do have some information that we are able to provide on the last five years which we have detailed here.
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.
These post-implementation reviews have been made publicly available and links are included below.
Number of post-implementation reviews undertaken for primary and secondary legislation in each of the last five years:
Year | Primary Legislation | Secondary legislation |
2021 | 0 | 3 |
2020 | 0 | 4 |
2019 | 1 | 3 |
2018 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 0 | 1 |
Links to publications by year publicly available on legislation.gov.uk:
Year | Link to Publication | Type of Legislation |
2021 | The Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2021 | Secondary | |
Year | Link to Publication | Type of Legislation |
2021 | The Energy Information Regulations 2011 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2020 | The Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations 2015 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2020 | The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations 2015 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2020 | The Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2020 | Secondary | |
2019 | Primary | |
2019 | The Tuberculosis (Deer and Camelid) (England) Order 2014 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2019 | Secondary | |
2019 | The Products Containing Meat etc. (England) Regulations 2014 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2018 | The Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (England) Regulations 2013 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |
2017 | The Tuberculosis (England) (Amendment) Order 2012 (legislation.gov.uk) | Secondary |