Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Legislation

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 1st February 2022

Information on the number of pieces of primary and secondary legislation that have gone through post-legislative scrutiny by the department in the last ten 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. We are unable to provide information older than five years without incurring disproportionate costs as this information is not held within the department.

The information provided here 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

Year

Link to Publication

Type of Legislation

2021

The Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 (legislation.gov.uk)

Secondary

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

The Honey (England) Regulations 2015 (legislation.gov.uk)

Secondary

2019

The Food Information Regulations 2014 (legislation.gov.uk)

Primary

2019

The Tuberculosis (Deer and Camelid) (England) Order 2014 (legislation.gov.uk)

Secondary

2019

The Tuberculosis (England) Order 2014 (legislation.gov.uk)

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

Reticulating Splines