Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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, HM Treasury has records of three Acts of primary legislation having undergone post legislative reviews.

HM Treasury does not hold information on how many post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on secondary legislation in each of the last ten years.

Section 28 of The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (‘SBEE Act 2015’) brought in a new duty to review secondary legislation, with exceptions where it is deemed inappropriate by the responsible Minister to do so. Prior to this, there was no statutory requirement to review secondary legislation.

HM Treasury does not hold information on the proportion of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on primary and secondary legislation in each of the last ten years.

However, post legislative reviews prior to the introduction of the SBEE Act 2015 will be available on legislation.gov.uk or gov.uk where it was possible to publish them, considering market sensitivity.

This information on primary and secondary 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.