Review of House of Lords investigative and scrutiny committee activity in 2021–22 Contents

Appendix 1: Activity indicators by financial year

2017/18 (Joint Committees)

2018/19 (Joint Committees)

2019/20 (Joint Committees)

2020/21 (Joint Committees)

2021/22 (Joint Committees)

Number of committees
/sub-committees

19 (2)292

20 (3)293

24 (3)294

26 (3)295

24 (3)296

Number of committee meetings

430 (26)

567 (45)

386(25)

658 (69)

615 (78)

Number of committee members

229 (16)

245 (22)

281 (21)

305 (22)

251 (22)

Number of witnesses giving oral evidence

778 (77)

939 (119)

638(35)

1095 (108)

1048 (166)

Number of written submissions received

917 (327)

1,377 (229)

1040(167)

2342 (512)

1397 (1073)

Number of reports published

44 (7)

65 (15)

58 (11)

81 (13)

65 (15)

Number of printed pages of reports

2,395 (298)

3,075 (541)

2,224 (495)

3457 (575)

2773 (864)

Resource expenditure outturn

£3,873,109

£4,211,649

£4,500,524

£4,607,782

£4,898,485297

Note: All figures exclude the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. The SLSC publishes data on its activity in its own yearly reports on the work of the Committee.


292 Including JCHR and JCNSS

293 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill. Excluding Joint Committee on the Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill, Joint Committee on the Draft Parliamentary Buildings Bill and Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill

294 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill. Excluding Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill. Artificially high due to the late publication of 3 Special Inquiry Reports

295 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. Artificially high due to the transition between the former EU sub-committees and the new sessional committees.

296 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill.

297 Provisional resource expenditure outturn.




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