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House of Lords written question – answered at on 26 September 2014.

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Photo of Lord Goodlad Lord Goodlad Chair, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Chair, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.

Photo of Baroness Neville-Rolfe Baroness Neville-Rolfe The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has laid 71 statutory instruments(SI’s) in this year to date. The table below shows those that have been identified as correcting errors in previous SI’s and the SI’s corrected.

The legal advisers in the Department for Business have this year reviewed and refreshed both the processes for the checking of SI’s and the training given to lawyers on drafting SI’s. This should reduce the incidence of drafting errors.

The Copyright and Duration of Rights in Performances (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/434] Corrects an error in SI 2013/1782
The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2014 [2014/578] Corrects an error in SI 2007/3291
The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) (No 3) 2014 [2014/787] Corrects an error in SI 2014/271
The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2014 [2014/891] Corrects an error in SI 2003/1592
The Copyright (Regulation of Relevant Licensing Bodies) Regulations 2014[2014/898] Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 5 February and published on 10 February
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/1771] Corrects an error in SI 2013/3113
The European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Convention on Internal Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on matters specific to Aircraft Equipment) Order 2014 [2014/1885] Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 11 March and published on 13 March

The table does not include drafts of affirmative instruments which were superseded by a further draft in identical form by reason of affirmative resolutions not having been obtained before the end of the 2013-2014 Parliamentary session and the identical draft being laid in the 2014-2015 session.

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