Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, whether the Government has plans to publish the titles of the Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU that have been deprioritised by the Government and will not be approved by Parliament in advance of 29 March 2019.

The Government's objective has always been to have a functioning statute book in place by Exit Day. As I have said previously in correspondence to the Procedure Committee and the European Statutory Instrument Committee, departments have taken steps to prioritise the statutory instruments (SIs) that were essential to achieving this. These considerations and assessments made by individual departments have meant that we have been able to lay over 90% of the secondary legislation required before we exit the EU. SIs that Departments deem to be non-essential, or where alternative powers already exist, have been deprioritised. Any SIs that fall into this category and are still required but not before Exit Day, will be laid before Parliament and Members will have the opportunity to scrutinise them in the normal way.