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<p>The Department for Transport has laid 58 statutory instruments before Parliament
this calendar year. Of these four, or about 6.9%, corrected errors in a previous instrument
(including one that supersedes an instrument laid in draft).</p><p> </p><p>In addition
one instrument was laid that replaced an instrument that had been previously laid
but which did not correspond precisely with the instrument as made.</p><p> </p><p>Correcting
instruments are something that all legal teams try to avoid. The Department for Transport
devotes significant resources to checking draft statutory instruments and to the continuing
education of drafters, both informally, for example by using more experienced drafters
to mentor less experienced drafters, and through more formal training at departmental
level and under the aegis of the Government Legal Service. The Department is also
represented on a cross-Whitehall group of drafting specialists which exists to act
as a point of contact and facilitate the sharing of best practice and it is participating
in a review of statutory instrument drafting arrangements in an enlarged shared legal
service led by the Treasury Solicitor’s Department.</p>
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