Traditionally all statutes in the UK were seen to have the same status, as they are enacted in the same way. None are formally entrenched and all can be repealed by a simple majority in Parliament. As a result, determining which statutes are ‘constitutional' is not immediately obvious; it is a question of what the subject matter of the Act in question concerns. In recent years some Acts of Parliament have become recognised, though, as having a special constitutional status (see Thoburn v Sunderland City Council [2003] QB 15).