Statistics and Registration Service Bill

Yes, I do, but given the way the amendment is drafted, a whole series of other statistics that we do not know about might not be included in the definition. Secondly, subsection (2) of amendment No. 48, which defines ““public good””, includes this wonderful paternalist wording that could have been written by a civil servant in the late 1940s. The public good is defined in the context of"““informing the public about social and economic matters””," and of"““the development and evaluation of public policy.””" In other words, the Minister is defining public good as the good of Whitehall. My amendment is a little simpler and a little more forthright. It makes it clear that the whole exercise should simply be for the public good, and that we should not try to confine it to what is in the best interests of Whitehall. However, I want to be charitable today to the Minister. He has included in amendment No. 48 the one phrase that perhaps saves him—““includes in particular””. So the amendment does not exclude other issues; it could go wider, and I believe that it should.