Types of legislations

• What provides the government a useful way of avoiding parliamentary scrutiny?

  Secondary legislation
• Although the House of Commons must vote on primary legislation, changes to the detail of existing Acts of Parliament can be delegated to government ministers and civil servants through statutory instruments (SIs, also known as Henry VIII clauses). Critics have accused governments of increasingly using statutory instruments to introduce significant changes to the law without them being given the same scrutiny as a primary Act of Parliament
• When were statutory instruments commonly used recently ?

  During the Covid pandemic to develop the governments strategy including lockdown measures