Parliament releases an annual report detailing various stats about volume
and number of legislative acts (as well as gender, ethnic, background makeup
of parliament etc). As far as I know it's only available in pdf - I will try
to find the link and email it when I have a moment.

The key thing in the latest report, as you say Adam, is volume - the number
of acts in the last 13 years is actually lower, but the number of pages in
the acts and use of statutory instruments has gone up massively.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Adam McGreggor <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:26:35PM +0000, Seb Bacon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got this query from a Democracy Club volunteer earlier, and thought
> > it was an interesting question.  Any ideas?
> >
> > > I was given a fact, last week, that I would like to check.
> > >
> > > “There has been more legislation in the last 10 years than the whole of
> the 20th century”
>
> By Acts, or by volume?
>
> In any case, I did some number crunching a while back, and Stef added
> to it.
>
> See
>
> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2008-March/001832.html
> and that thread ;)
>
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