The problem is not the number of new laws, it's the new law makers. The process is not as rigorous as it should be, and we end up with overlap and contradiction.
All of us are criminals because of laws that enforce and prohibit at the same time. Fortunately even the police are lost in the maze.

Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire

Beauracratic Labour. I am not surprised with these findings my concern is how uncompetative it makes the businesses and the impact it has on the market. Taxation and beauracracy are Labour traits. Just look at the 1970's to see where we are heading!

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

The trouble with this government is that they exaggerate risk.If there is a 1% chance something will happen they will legislate to ban it.They cannot look at it as a 99% chance that it won't happen and that there is therefore no need to do anything

Andrew , Bristol, UK

Typical of politicians & bureaucrats, rather than make the existing laws work - their only answer is to create more. This is seen as taking action.

ken, london, uk

It is doubtful many MPs are aware of how many laws they have passed. An argument for culling perhaps?

Simon Marshland, Bath, UK

There should be a limit of the amount of laws that can be brought in each year – say 100. This would save everyone a lot of time and money, and would make sure only really useful things would be worked on. How can small business keep up with all that legislation?

matty, frankfurt, germany

Perhaps laws should become active only when MPs have taken an end of session examination on all the laws passed during that session. After all, if the lawmakers fail, how can the rest of us be assumed to know the law? The obvious problem with this scheme - the pass mark would be set too low!

David, Marlow, UK

And each of them created more work for the lawyers!

Marek, London,

Many of these new laws are bogus and repressive. Leaders have an incentive to make laws but not repeal them, for fear of looking soft. We need more checks and balances on what laws get passed, and automatic repeal of laws which violate rights or have no effect after a few years.

Andy, Nottingham, UK