Retained EU Law / Assimilated Law Public Dashboard
The government dashboard cataloguing EU-derived law on the UK statute book, cited in the essay for the growth of the count from about 2,400 to nearly 7,000.
Dataset · 2022Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Government’s displayed inventory counts, scope and final-update notice.
- Department for Business and Trade: REUL dashboard
2,417 initial entries, 6,921 final identified entries, final July 2026 update and planned January 2027 decommissioning; excludes devolved-made legislation.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Counts are government inventory entries, not all EU-derived legal provisions or a count of laws newly enacted. Underlying dataset not independently reconciled.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Time-sensitive details due for review
Both figures the essay takes from this source check out against the live dashboard: 2,417 pieces catalogued when it was first published in June 2022, which the essay rounds to 2,400, and 6,921 identified since, which the essay gives as almost 7,000.
One thing has changed since publication. The dashboard states it was updated for
the final time in July 2026, alongside the sixth and final parliamentary report.
The essay's closing observation that the count "is still growing" described a live
series at the time of writing and now describes a closed one. That is the
distinction stale_after exists to record.
The increase reflects identification in an inventory, not 4,504 newly enacted laws. The dashboard excludes legislation made by devolved administrations and legislatures. Its notice schedules decommissioning for January 2027, with a final dataset retained on GOV.UK.
In the essays
- For the Love of Law
Read the essay
Ideas
- Legislative debt
Subject
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/retained-eu-law-dashboard.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25