Some of the safeguards that my hon. Friend announced, particularly the second one, are foreshadowed by clause 8, which usefully states that the statistics board may"““report any concerns it has about…good practice in relation to any official statistics…The Board may publish its findings or any report under this section.””"
If the board believes that that pre-release statistics have been misused by Ministers, it can make a public statement, as it is accountable to Parliament rather than to Ministers. Is that not another safeguard in the Bill?
Statistics and Registration Service Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Rob Marris
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 8 January 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Statistics and Registration Service Bill.
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