Your Consolidated 2023 Wrapped is here!

As Christmas and 2024 quickly approach us, we thought we would provide you with a summary of what has been happening here at Barbour Consolidated in 2023!

Of course 2023 isn't over just yet and there is a busy December planned to keep the writing team as busy as Santa's elves...

But for now, here are our stats for the year to November, which highlights what has been added and updated to help our clients stay compliant.

National legislation

Our national legislation includes:

• Acts;
• Statutory Instruments (SI);
• Scottish Statutory Instruments (SSI);
• Statutory Rules;
• Statutory Orders;
• Statutory Rule Order;
• Welsh Measures;
• Northern Ireland Orders;
• Byelaws;
• Command Papers;
• Ministerial Order;
• Retained EU Law (soon to be Assimilated).

This year our writers published 271 new, and updated 668, pieces of national legislation.

Draft legislation and consultations

Our draft legislation and consultation documents include pieces of legislation before they come into force and ideas the government is seeking opinions on.

This year our writers published 96 new, and updated 109, pieces of draft legislation and consultations.

Guidance documents

Our guidance documents are from government departments that help provide further information to support national legislation.

This year our writers published 75 new, and updated 398, pieces of guidance documents.

Regulators and bodies

Regulators and bodies are those who create the legislation, guidance documents, drafts and consultations.

This year our writers published 2 new, and updated 4, of our pages which provide information on regulators and bodies.

News stories and in-focus articles

Our writers create news stories and in-focus articles on:

• fines and environmental crimes;
• planning law updates;
• health and safety prosecutions;
• how changes in the law impacts compliance;
• plus much more!

This year our writers published 277 new, and updated 278, news stories and in-focus articles.

European documents

Our European legislation includes:

• Regulations;
• Directives;
• Decisions;
• Proposals;
• Recommendations;
• Treaties;
• Agreements;
• Notices.

This year our writers published 235 new, and updated 308, pieces of European legislation.

Introduction pages

Our introduction pages provide a basic overview of our topics in our energy, environment, planning and safety subscriptions.

We make sure to keep our pages updated when new law that affects these topics come into force. This year our writers updated 12 introduction pages.

Barbour Consolidated Wrapped 2023

So far our writing team have published 956 new, and updated 1777, documents on Barbour Consolidated.

That is amazing work, and for what is set to be a busy December, I am sure the writing team will be looking forward to the Christmas break!