Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill on the effectiveness of parliamentary scrutiny of the Government.

The Government recognises the importance of ensuring legislation undergoes the appropriate level of scrutiny.

The Bill contains robust mechanisms that will enable the appropriate scrutiny of any amendments or repeals of retained EU law made by the powers in this Bill. This includes a sifting procedure that will apply to regulations proposed to be made by the negative procedure under the powers to restate and the powers to revoke or replace.