Proposed negative statutory instrument Business step

26 June 2018 -

A Minister may exercise powers under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 or the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 to propose that instruments be subject to the proposed negative procedure. After a proposed negative instrument has been laid, each House has ten sitting days in which it may consider the instrument and agree with the proposal of the Minister, or instead recommend the instrument be subject to the draft affirmative procedure. In the Commons, the instrument is considered by the European Statutory Instruments Committee. In the Lords, the instrument is considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Any result of consideration does not bind a Minister, who must nevertheless make a written statement if disagreeing with a recommendation of a committee.

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Step	Actualisation count
Business and Trade Committee (BTC) agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	3
Business and Trade Committee (BTC) recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
Committee sifting period ends	424
Considered by the Business and Trade Committee (BTC) (House of Commons)	3
Considered by the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (House of Commons)	1
Considered by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (House of Commons)	1
Considered by the European Statutory Instruments Committee (ESIC) (House of Commons)	336
Considered by the Foreign Affairs Committee	1
Considered by the Home Affairs Committee (House of Commons)	2
Considered by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) (House of Commons)	2
Considered by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (House of Commons)	2
Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) (House of Lords)	359
Considered by the Transport Committee (House of Commons)	9
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	1
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	1
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
European Statutory Instruments Committee (ESIC) agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	279
European Statutory Instruments Committee (ESIC) recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	57
Foreign Affairs Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure	1
Foreign Affairs Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure	0
Further information published by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) (House of Lords)	1
Home Affairs Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	2
Home Affairs Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
Laid before the House of Commons (House of Commons)	424
Laid before the House of Lords (House of Lords)	424
Ministerial statement of disagreement with sifting recommendation (House of Commons)	0
Ministerial statement of disagreement with sifting recommendation (House of Lords)	0
Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords (House of Commons and House of Lords)	424
Proposed negative statutory instrument created	424
Proposed negative statutory instrument withdrawn from the House of Commons (House of Commons)	69
Proposed negative statutory instrument withdrawn from the House of Lords (House of Lords)	69
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	2
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	2
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	0
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Lords)	305
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Lords)	54
Statutory instrument can be laid under the negative procedure	273
Statutory instrument should be laid under the affirmative procedure	81
Transport Committee agreed the instrument should follow the negative procedure (House of Commons)	8
Transport Committee recommended the instrument should follow the affirmative procedure (House of Commons)	1

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https://id.parliament.uk/iCdMN1MW

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# We declare the Parliament and ID namespaces.
PREFIX : <https://id.parliament.uk/schema/>
PREFIX id: <https://id.parliament.uk/>

# We select the properties we want to appear in results. If all properties are required, an asterisk can be used between SELECT and WHERE instead of listing properties.
SELECT DISTINCT ?procedure ?procedureName ?stepType ?stepTypeLabel ?step ?stepName ?legislature ?legislatureName ?commonsId ?lordsId (COALESCE(?rawBiCount, 0) AS ?biCount) WHERE {

# We set the value of the procedure property.   
VALUES ?procedure { id:iCdMN1MW }

# We specify that the procedure property is a procedure and look for its name.   
?procedure a :Procedure;
:name ?procedureName.

# We look for all procedure routes and the steps in those routes, including whether they are a From step or a To step. The pipe in line 17 is a SPARQL OR.  
?procedure :procedureHasProcedureRoute ?route.
?route :procedureRouteIsFromProcedureStep|:procedureRouteIsToProcedureStep ?step.

# We specify the procedure step must have a name, a step type and that the step type also has a name.   
?step :name ?stepName.
?step :procedureStepHasProcedureStepType ?stepType.
?stepType :name ?stepTypeLabel.

# We limit steps to being only of the type 'Business step'.
FILTER (?stepType in (id:Jwc6nqJi))

# We check to see if the step belongs to a legislature. A legislature will be Scottish Parliament, Senedd Cymru or the Northern Ireland Assembly.   
OPTIONAL {?step :procedureStepInLegislature ?legislature .
?legislature :name ?legislatureName .}

# We check to see if the step belongs to the House of Commons.     
OPTIONAL {?step :procedureStepHasHouse ?commonsId .
FILTER (?commonsId = id:1AFu55Hs)}

# We check to see if the step belongs to the House of Lords.   
OPTIONAL {?step :procedureStepHasHouse ?lordsId .
FILTER (?lordsId = id:WkUWUBMx)}

# We specify an optional subquery which calculates the number of distinct business items that actualise a steps from the procedure. We make it optional because not every step will be actualised in a business item.   
OPTIONAL {
SELECT ?step (COUNT(DISTINCT ?bi) AS ?rawBiCount)
WHERE {
# We find business items actualising the step. 
?step :procedureStepHasBusinessItem ?bi .

# We find the work package each business item belongs to.
?bi :businessItemHasWorkPackage ?wp.

# We specify that the work packages must have the procedure. 
?wp :workPackageHasProcedure id:iCdMN1MW.}

# We group the results by step.    
GROUP BY ?step}
}

# We order the results by step name. 
ORDER BY ?stepName