Statistics and Registration Service Bill

It is on that very point that I would like the Minister to respond. He said that there had been an ““inadvertent indication of the unemployment statistics””, but the truth is that what we witnessed was a blatant abuse of Government statistics. Surely we must include in the pre-release arrangements something that can prevent such blatant abuses from taking place again, and that must mean ensuring a much shorter pre-release period—one more in line with those in other countries—than the one provided for in the current arrangements, or under the Bill.