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Proceeding contribution from John Healey (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 8 January 2007. It occurred during Debate on bill on Statistics and Registration Service Bill.

Statistics and Registration Service Bill

The hon. Lady has got the wrong end of the stick. The point about the code and the responsibility of the statistics board is not only that it formulates the code, but assesses the national statistics and their production against that code. Clearly, with such a wide—and widening—range of Government data, it does not make sense to give the same attention or submit to the same process as the jobless figures, or the economic data that constitutes the national accounts, to some of the more minor examples that the hon. Lady, if she considers some of the 1,300 national statistics that I have placed in the Library, will accept should not be accorded the same status or importance.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
455 c33 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP 07/195
Monday, 8 January 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects
Access Assessments Disclosure of information Conditions of employment Databases Codes of practice Abuse Accountability Departmental responsibilities Finance Freedom of information Government departments Economic situation Government information services NHS Northern Ireland Membership Public appointments Property transfer Publications Parliamentary scrutiny Staff Publishing Office for National Statistics Scotland Statistics Registration Standards Registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships Research Retail prices index Statistics Commission UK Statistics Authority
Legislation
Statistics and Registration Service Bill 2006-07
Link
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