Treasury: Legislation

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

In the last five years, HM Treasury undertook and laid one post legislative review for primary legislation, which covered multiple Acts. Separately, post legislative memorandums may be found on gov.uk.

For secondary legislation, post legislative reviews are known as Post-Implementation Reviews (PIRs) if they come under the Better Regulation Framework. Between Jan 2017-Jan 2022, under the scope defined by the SBEE Act 2015 and the Better Regulation Framework, HM Treasury has records of 19 PIRs having been completed and published. The breakdown for each of the last five years is as follows: 1 in 2017; 3 in 2018; 6 in 2019; 2 in 2020; 6 in 2021; 1 in 2022.

This information on post legislative reviews of both primary and secondary legislation is only held in HM Treasury for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structure in the past decade.

Where possible, considering any market sensitivity, all post legislative reviews or post legislative memorandums are published on gov.uk, and PIRs are published alongside the original legislation on legislation.gov.uk for transparency and accountability.

As well as completed reviews, there are a number of PIRs currently being undertaken, some of which cover multiple pieces of legislation.

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