Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pieces of EU legislation have become law in the UK since 1973.

There is no precise figure for the number of pieces of EU legislation which have been adopted during the UK’s membership of the EU. The Government estimates that around 12,000 directly applicable EU Regulations and 8,000 domestic regulations – 20,000 pieces of law – have been implemented while we have been members of the EU.