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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Statutory Instruments subject to negative procedure made by his Department (a) came into force and (b) were considered by a delegated legislation committee in each of the last three sessions. [88033] Maria Eagle: The details requested are in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Session Number of negative statutory instruments Number considered by delegated legislation that came into force committee 1999-2000 (Department of Social Security) 68 2 2000-01 (Department of Social Security) 44 0 2001-02 (Department for Work and Pensions) 101 4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. A further 14 instruments subject to the negative procedure came into force in the period between the end of the 1999-2000 session and the start of the 2000-01 session and a further three instruments subject to the negative procedure came into force in the period between the end of the 2000-01 session and the start of the 2001-02 session. Where a Statutory Instrument has more than one commencement date, the first date has been used.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

88033; 398 c501W;398 c499W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Delegated legislation Department for Work and Pensions Department of Social Security Government departments Parliamentary procedure Standing committees Statutory instruments

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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