50  Annual Report Quantity advisory The Commission has a developing role in providing advice to Ministers and government agencies on the design, and adherence to legal principles, of legislation being prepared for and presented to the House. This role is primarily performed through the support that the Commission provides to the Legislation Design Committee (LDC) and the Legislation Advisory Committee (LAC). Legislation Design Committee Under Cabinet directive, LDC provides departments with high level advice on the architecture of legislation referred by the department or the Cabinet Office. The primary reason for referral is to ensure advice is given early on the framework of new legislation, which in turn assists compliance with the LAC Guidelines. LAC receives legislative proposals too late to be effective in advising on the architecture of legislation. The President of the Commission chairs the LDC, which provided advice on 16 legislative design initiatives in the last year. Legislation Advisory Committee The Law Commission provides reports to LAC on every Government bill introduced to Parliament, based on the LAC Guidelines for best practice. The current Chair of LAC is also the President of the Law Commission. There were 44 full reports provided to LAC in the 2007/08 year, plus comments on 5 other bills. LAC provided follow-up submissions to agencies, Ministers or Select Committees on 17 bills, which were generally prepared in the Commission. The quantity of advisory items provided by the Commission is determined by the number of requests for advice that the Commission receives, and/or the number of occasions on which we consider it appropriate and necessary to offer advice. At the commencement of the year, the Commission expected to provide between five and ten items of advice through the LDC and between 20 and 30 reports to the LAC. As noted above, the actual workload was considerably more than this estimate. Other advisory work In addition to the work of the two executive committees, the Commission has provided advice directly to Government on other matters pertaining to policy and/or legislation. The burden of this work usually falls on Commissioners. In 2007/08, of the total substantive hours available for project work, Commissioners expended 20% of this time on advisory work.