Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by (i) their Department or (ii) their predecessor Department has undergone a post legislative review in each of the last 10 years.
The number, and proportion, of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on primary and secondary legislation in each of the last ten years is not held within the Department. However, the number of PIRs undertaken in the last five years is available as follows.
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy have undertaken the following Post Implementation Reviews (PIR) on primary and secondary legislation.
Year | Total PIRs | Primary PIRs | Secondary PIRs |
2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2018 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
2019 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
2020 | 20 | 3 | 17 |
2021 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Totals | 57 | 6 | 51 |
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