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1679426

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many items of retained EU law were (a) revoked and (b) assimilated before 1 January 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
	tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>At the end of 2023, approximately 700 pieces of Retained EU Law (REUL) were revoked via schedule 1 of the Act (“the revocation schedule”) and subsequent secondary legislation. Unless actively revoked, no REUL was sunset and instead became “assimilated law” after the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The Retained EU Law Dashboard is the government’s public catalogue of each piece of REUL confirmed by government departments, and their status. The dashboard currently features 5020 pieces of REUL and will be updated in January 2024, in line with our statutory commitments in the REUL Act and alongside the forthcoming first REUL parliamentary report.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 10/01/2024 16:20:27 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

1675401

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will take steps to align the UK with EU (a) standards and (b) regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	5285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>The UK government has recently announced plans to continue recognising the EU’s CE marking indefinitely for 18 manufactured goods product regulations managed by the Department for Business and Trade. This announcement followed extensive engagement with industry. We are working closely with businesses and other stakeholders to ensure our approach to regulation supports the UK economy, industry and consumers.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 13/12/2023 10:39:09 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1624348

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180243 on EU Law, whether her Department created (a) submissions to these EU initiatives and (b) a list of regulations that the Government had assessed as meriting deregulation.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade does not centrally hold documents relating to negotiations at EU level over reducing costs of draft EU legislation.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in our policy paper, <em>Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy</em>, this Government is scrutinising the stock of legislation we have inherited from the EU and our wider regulations to ensure red tape does not stop businesses from growing or competing.</p><p> </p><p>We have already announced that we will make improvements to employment law that could save businesses around £1bn a year, while safeguarding the rights of workers, and will set out further plans to reduce burdens on business and citizens through the course of this year.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 05/06/2023 16:36:00 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1624350

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180243 on EU Law, whether her department holds searchable IT archives employing the search term out of scope relating to changes to regulatory burdens that could not be reviewed due to its EU origin.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade does not hold searchable IT archives that could be searched in this way.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 22/05/2023 16:35:18 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1624351

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180243 on EU Law, whether her department holds searchable IT archives setting out historic submissions from interest groups providing cost-benefit estimates of EU legislation.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade does not hold searchable IT archives specifically setting out historic submissions from interest groups providing cost-benefit estimates of EU legislation.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 22/05/2023 16:32:07 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1624346

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180243 on EU Law, whether her Department conducted audits to assess the performance of the EU Better Regulation Initiative from 2010 until the UK's departure from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade is not aware of any audits conducted on the performance of this Initiative.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 22/05/2023 16:27:23 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1624349

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180243 on EU Law, whether her Department holds searchable IT archives setting out Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU-sourced regulation.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade does not hold searchable IT archives and searchable documentation relating to Regulatory Impact Analysis estimates for EU sourced regulation. However, all available regulatory impact assessments should be publicly accessible on legislation.gov.uk, alongside the relevant piece of legislation.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 22/05/2023 16:22:09 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1625149

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which regulations will not be subject to the sunset clause within the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	183450
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2023 answer text <p>The scope of the sunset is defined in clause one and it covers ‘EU-derived domestic subordinate legislation’ and ‘retained direct EU legislation’.</p><p>Primary legislation will not sunset.</p><p>Clause 1 also contains the preservation power. This allows the UK Government and devolved governments to preserve specific pieces of retained EU law that would otherwise be subject to the sunset.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/05/2023 12:14:19 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1610110

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what documents relating to negotiations at EU level over reducing costs of draft EU legislation where held at the UK Representation to the EU from 2010 until the UK's departure from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The FCDO does not collate centrally and specifically documentation relating to negotiations at EU level over reducing costs of draft EU legislation. The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, His Majesty's Government at the time was a supporter of EU better regulation initiatives, an objective of which was the reduction of unnecessary regulatory costs arising from EU legislation.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 24/04/2023 16:09:09 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1606774

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the Departmental delivery plan that outlines its intention for each piece of retained EU law as committed to in a letter from the Minister for Industry and Investment Security to Baroness Andrews on 3 February 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Neath
	tabling member printed	Christina Rees
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	172468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>Defra is conducting analysis of its Retained EU Law stock to determine what should be preserved as part of domestic law, as well as REUL that should be removed, or amended. A list of regulations to be revoked or allowed to sunset, through the REUL Bill will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 31/03/2023 10:33:27 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees