Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.

Our objective has always been to have a functioning statute book in place by Exit Day and to ensure that the most critical secondary legislation was made by this point.

All of the Ministry of Justice’s essential ‘no deal’ Exit Statutory Instruments were made prior to 29 March 2019.

In addition, the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 are expected to be made shortly; and a further no deal Exit SI, to enable payments to be made to UK recipients of The Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme in the event of a no deal exit, is due to be laid shortly.