Government Bills

(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what the average number of clauses in government bills that received Royal Assent was in the last five sessions.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 6th July 2023

In the last five sessions, the following number of Government Bills reached Royal Assent:

Session

Number of Bills reaching Royal Assent

2021-22

34

2019-21

44

2019

3

2017-19

51

2016-17

32

The average number of clauses in Government Bills that received Royal Assent in that period is not held centrally. To provide this information would therefore incur disproportionate cost.

The full text of each Government Act from each of the last five sessions is available on legislation.gov.uk.

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