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Statistics and Registration Service Bill

I do not quite understand what the Minister is saying because the Treasury not the board makes all these decisions. I was trying to establish what the Government’s position was. The Minister said that he could not tell me what the policy is, but I know that it must be set because an announcement was made in a Written Statement last week that budgetary cover had been taken to go out and get all these new people. I am disappointed that the Minister cannot answer that question, but I hope that he will undertake to write to me on it.