UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API

Name: UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API API
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For Agents

Query Statutory Instruments laid before Parliament, track scrutiny status, and retrieve committee reports across 16 endpoints.

Connect the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

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Capabilities

What an agent can do with UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API API.

Search for Statutory Instruments by title, year, or department

Retrieve details of a specific SI by ID

List SIs by laid date or parliamentary session

Track SI scrutiny status and procedural progress

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Use for: Find all Statutory Instruments laid this month, What SIs have been laid by the Department of Health?, Retrieve details of a specific Statutory Instrument, Check the scrutiny status of an SI

Not supported: Covers parliamentary scrutiny of Statutory Instruments including laying, procedure, and committee reports. Does not include full SI text or legal force dates — use legislation.gov.uk API for that. Does not cover draft SIs or instruments laid before devolved parliaments.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only agent-ready OpenAPI specification for the UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API, keeping it validated and up to date. The API exposes details of Statutory Instruments (SIs) laid before Parliament, including negative and affirmative procedures, laid dates, parliamentary scrutiny status, and associated committee reports. It powers legal compliance platforms, regulatory tracking systems, and parliamentary oversight tools monitoring secondary legislation across government departments.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Regulatory Change Monitoring

Track new Statutory Instruments as they are laid before Parliament to monitor regulatory changes affecting specific sectors. Search by department or keyword via GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search, then retrieve full SI details including laying date, procedure type, and enabling Act. Ideal for compliance teams tracking secondary legislation.

GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search?department=Health to list all SIs laid by the Department of Health

Parliamentary Scrutiny Tracking

Monitor the scrutiny status of affirmative and negative procedure SIs as they progress through parliamentary oversight. GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id} returns current status, while committee report endpoints expose scrutiny recommendations. Useful for parliamentary researchers and legal teams tracking SI approval timelines.

GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}, then GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports to retrieve scrutiny details

Enabling Act Cross-Reference

Link Statutory Instruments to their parent Acts by querying SIs made under specific enabling powers. Filter by Act or section to see all secondary legislation created under a particular statute. This supports legal research connecting primary and secondary legislation.

GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search?enablingAct={act} to list all SIs made under a specific Act

AI-Powered Regulatory Research via Jentic

An AI agent monitoring UK regulation can search for SIs by department or policy area, track scrutiny progress, and retrieve committee reports through Jentic without managing complex filtering or parsing nested SI data. Jentic resolves intents like 'find health SIs laid this year' to the correct endpoints.

Search Jentic for 'find Statutory Instruments by department', load GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search schema, and execute

Key Endpoints

16 endpoints — jentic publishes the only agent-ready openapi specification for the uk parliament statutory instruments api, keeping it validated and up to date.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/Search

Search for Statutory Instruments by various criteria

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}

Retrieve detailed information about a specific SI

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports

Get committee reports for an SI

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/List

List all SIs with filtering and pagination

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/Search

Search for Statutory Instruments by various criteria

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}

Retrieve detailed information about a specific SI

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/{id}/CommitteeReports

Get committee reports for an SI

GET

/api/StatutoryInstruments/List

List all SIs with filtering and pagination

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

No authentication required — the Statutory Instruments API is open-access. Jentic handles filtering logic and nested SI data parsing so agents receive structured regulatory information without managing complex query parameters.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g. 'find health SIs', 'check SI scrutiny status') and Jentic returns the matching Statutory Instruments API endpoint with the request schema pre-shaped for execution.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 3-5 days mapping 16 endpoints, handling procedure types, and parsing committee reports. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search by intent, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

UK Parliament Bills API

Legislative bills and amendments tracking across parliamentary sessions

Use Bills API for primary legislation; use Statutory Instruments API for secondary legislation made under Acts

Complementary

UK Parliament Treaties API

International treaties laid before Parliament with scrutiny status

Both APIs track parliamentary scrutiny of laid documents; SIs cover domestic regulation, Treaties cover international agreements

Complementary

UK Legislation API

Full text of UK legislation including Acts and SIs

Use Statutory Instruments API for parliamentary scrutiny status; use Legislation API for full SI text and legal force

FAQs

Specific to using UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API API through Jentic.

What is a Statutory Instrument?

A Statutory Instrument (SI) is a form of secondary legislation made under powers granted by an Act of Parliament (primary legislation). SIs allow the government to make detailed regulations without passing new Acts. They are laid before Parliament and subject to negative or affirmative procedure scrutiny.

What is the difference between negative and affirmative procedure?

Affirmative procedure SIs require parliamentary approval (a vote) to come into force. Negative procedure SIs become law automatically unless Parliament votes to reject them within 40 days. The API includes procedure type in SI details.

Can I filter SIs by government department?

Yes. Use GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search with department or laying authority parameters to filter SIs by the government department responsible for laying them. This is useful for tracking regulatory changes in specific policy areas.

How do I find SIs made under a specific Act?

Use the enabling Act filter in GET /api/StatutoryInstruments/Search to retrieve all SIs made under powers granted by a particular Act of Parliament. The API returns the parent Act and section references for each SI.

Is authentication required for this API?

No. The UK Parliament Statutory Instruments API is a public API with no authentication required. It provides open access to SI data for research, compliance, and monitoring purposes.

Where does Jentic's OpenAPI spec for this API come from?

Jentic imports and validates the official Swagger spec published by UK Parliament at https://statutoryinstruments-api.parliament.uk/swagger/v1/swagger.json, converts it to OpenAPI 3.0.3, and keeps it updated so AI agents and developers can call the API via structured tooling.