Ministry of Justice: Legislation

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 1st February 2022

(i) In the last 10 years the Ministry of Justice has carried out post-legislative scrutiny of one of 17 Acts that have received Royal Assent since 2012 – the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. In addition, as part of the Department’s routine work, officials and Ministers regularly consider how best to make improvements to the justice system, and this includes looking at how recent legislation has performed.

(ii) The number of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on secondary legislation in the last 10 years is not held within the Department.

This information is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structures in the past decade.

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