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<p>The Government seeks to avoid breaching the Scrutiny Reserve Resolutions, continuing
to account for overrides in writing to the Committees. The European Union Committee’s
Report on 2013-14 (House of Lords Paper 6) published on 1 July 2014, recognised that
continued positive engagement between the Committee’s secretariat and Departments
has seen the number of overrides fall significantly since 2010, noting that many of
the overrides that continue to be recorded relate to sensitive and fast-moving foreign
policy matters, which cannot be made public beforehand, and where a scrutiny override
may be difficult to avoid. That remained the case in the period January-June 2014
where of the 25 overrides across both Houses, 21 were in this category in the House
of Lords and 22 in the House of Commons. During this period, 476 Explanatory Memoranda
were submitted.</p><p>The figures requested are set out below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(1).
House of Lords Override</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(2). House of Commons override</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(a).
No. of overrides in both Houses</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b). Total no. of
overrides</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Totals</strong></p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
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