Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the number of laws listed on the retained EU law dashboard has decreased from 1,781 to 1,671; and which laws were removed in the latest iteration of the dashboard.

The retained EU law dashboard is intended to be iterative and updated on a rolling basis. The recent updates to Defra’s numbers reflect the extensive work carried out across the Department on further REUL analysis. For example, some items have been removed from the dashboard as there is now legal clarity that they are not classified as REUL, within scope of the Bill, or they have been reallocated to the relevant Department.