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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 75765 on Civil Service: EU Law, how many documents held by his Department relating to past attempts at deregulation contain both the expressions out of scope and business burdens.

We are not aware of there ever having been a business burdens depository within BEIS and we are unable to account for across government.

Departmental-wide information within BEIS on the number of individual documents which contain the phrase "out of scope" and "business burdens", and which relate to previous activity around reducing unnecessary business burdens, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.