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<p>(a)</p><p> </p><p>The number of pieces of primary legislation sponsored by Defra
over each of the past ten years is publicly available and can be calculated using
the Parliament.uk website (<a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/</a>).</p><p>
</p><p>(b)</p><p> </p><p>The number of statutory instruments introduced by Defra over
each of the past ten years is publicly available and can be calculated using the Defra
Lex website (<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fdefralex&data=04%7C01%7CHarvey.Slade%40defra.gov.uk%7Cb056c35515af4747d9d408d9e0020958%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C637787121608772510%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=R5jOOMzuBGOXSmmodsZ6VFDMcHPwU%2BQJu8W2UGGbawA%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/defralex</a>). This information may
not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental
structure in the past decade.</p>
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