Legislative Initiatives in Response to Covid-19 Across the United Kingdom

In this paper we look at how the right of legislative initiative was used in response to the coronavirus pandemic across the United Kingdom. We consider bills introduced in Parliament as well as in devolved legislatures in 2020 and 2021 in all cases where changes to legislation were presented as required ora at least warranted by the pandemic and its consequences. We seek to establish to what extent was the coronavirus pandemic treated as an opportunity to achieve legislative goals that in different circumstances would have been much more difficult to realize? We are also interested to what extent was legislative initiative in response to pandemic monopolized by governments. Finally, we ask whether there was a significant difference between legislative bodies in the United Kingdom when it comes to use of legislative initiative in response to Covid-19.