Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has laid 21 statutory instruments during 2014, three of which (14.3%) corrected earlier instruments. DCMS is committed to improving the drafting of statutory instruments. The Treasury Solicitor’s Department, which advises DCMS, is working with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel on ways of strengthening drafting. The Treasury Solicitor’s Department is working on ideas to improve training, supervision, checking, planning, and the sharing of good practice and expertise.