Appendix 1: Delegated legislation in numbers
Figure 1: Total number of the UK Statutory Instruments, by year, 1950–201584
Figure 2: Instruments subject to divisions on fatal motions, May 1997 to February 201685
Table 1: House of Lords business relating to delegated legislation, 2004–05 to 2014–1586
Chamber business |
Grand Committee |
|||||||
Session |
Motions to approve |
Time taken (Hr:min) |
Motions to annul |
Time taken (Hr:min) |
Other proceedings |
Time taken (Hr:min) |
Number of instruments |
Time taken (Hr:min) |
|
2004-5 |
102 |
23:06 |
2 |
1:03 |
3 |
1:06 |
22 |
7:16 |
|
2005-6 |
219 |
42:09 |
11 |
6:42 |
7 |
5:36 |
106 |
26:21 |
|
2006-7 |
169 |
35:21 |
6 |
7:50 |
5 |
5:21 |
92 |
34:56 |
|
2007-8 |
185 |
40:14 |
17 |
9:16 |
6 |
5:06 |
103 |
36:23 |
|
2008-9 |
187 |
27:44 |
3 |
5:41 |
9 |
6:29 |
124 |
41:39 |
|
2009–10 |
145 |
27:41 |
2 |
2:40 |
9 |
6:44 |
92 |
38:23 |
|
2010–12 |
258 |
38:07 |
8 |
9:26 |
21 |
15:49 |
205 |
80:53 |
|
2012–13 |
121 |
22:46 |
1 |
2:28 |
10 |
10:22 |
161 |
67:16 |
|
2013–14 |
181 |
17:06 |
2 |
2:14 |
9 |
12:14 |
174 |
56:57 |
|
2014–15 |
315 |
22:01 |
1 |
0:22 |
8 |
5:12 |
286 |
79:35 |
|
Total |
1882 |
296:15 |
53 |
47:42 |
87 |
73:59 |
1365 |
479:39 |
84 House of Commons Library, Acts and Statutory Instruments: the volume of UK legislation 1950 to 2015, CBP-7438, Tables 1a and 1b.
85 The three divisions on the Tax Credits Regulations are treated here as a constituting a single defeat on a fatal motion as they relate to only one instrument. The graph includes the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, which were approved in an unwhipped division in February 2015.
86 House of Lords Business Statistics, 2007/08-2014/15