Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by (i) their Department or (ii) their predecessor Department has undergone a post legislative review in each of the last 10 years.

In the last 10 years the FCDO and its predecessor Departments have sponsored eight pieces of primary legislation. None of these pieces has undergone post legislative review.

The number of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on secondary legislation in each of the last ten years is not held within the Department.