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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation their Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.

The information on primary legislation is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structure in the past decade.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was founded in 2016, through a merger between the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The information for primary legislation therefore includes predecessor departments. Due to the nature of primary legislation spanning calendar years, information has been provided per Parliamentary Session.

The number of pieces of secondary legislation sponsored by Government departments could be calculated utilising publicly available information. This information is not held within the Department.