under Blair it was, quite literally, several new new laws every day and has continued pretty much unchecked since then –
Yet putting aside the total number of pieces of legislation, the actual number of private bills successful under thatcher and major was usually double if not more per year/session than under blair afterwards: i wonder where else these ‘several new laws a day’ were coming from? And should private members bills be cut because of pebbledashing legislation elsewhere in the political week?
Parliament.uk website us unclear how many members bills were debated/started but not made law however, so i can’t see wherther the huge drop in private members bills made law under blair vs the conservative governments before was against a background of there being too many bills introduced or too few, or something else entirely.
Interesting also to wonder how many laws would have been more ‘officially’ supported by governments had they not been able to be put in more quietly as whips or handout bills. Would we still have had the following and if not how much later and in what form?
(shamelessly lifted from wiki):
Abortion Act 1967
Adoption Act 1964,
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965,
Charter Trustees Act 1986,
Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996,
Knives Act 1997,
British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997,
Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2003
Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004
Sustainable Communities Act 2006