Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the potential number of Acts or parts of Acts that will be subject to repeal as a result of provisions in the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.

The Department for International Trade has been analysing the UK statute book and directly applicable EU law in its area of responsibility to enable an assessment of the scale of the changes needed. This is likely to include the repeal, but also the amendment, of provisions in Acts but we are not in a position to give a sense of scale at this time.

In the Government White Paper on the Repeal Bill [‘Legislating for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union’], published on 30 March 2017, the Department for Exiting the European Union estimated around 800 - 1,000 EU-exit related Statutory Instruments will be required.