Treasury - Tenth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 July 2006.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Previous work by the Treasury Committee
Statistics in the UK: some brief background
The Government's proposals
Public confidence in statistics in the UK
2 The Framework
for National Statistics
Criticism of the National Statistics system
Public domain distinction
Our conclusions
The decentralised statistical system
Scope of the proposed legislation
3 Governance
of the independent statistics office
Structure and responsibilities
Responsibilities of the National Statistician
Title of the National Statistician
4 Establishing
a non-ministerial department
The Government's proposals
Our conclusions
5 Funding
arrangements for the non-ministerial department
The Government's proposals
Impact of funding on independence
Funding arrangements for the census
6 Parliament's
scrutiny role
The Government's proposals
Select committee scrutiny
Laying reports before Parliament
7 Pre-release
of statistics
The Protocol on Release Practices
Alleged breaches of pre-release of statistics
Placing restrictions on pre-release
The Monetary Policy Committee
The Government's response
8 Devolution
and UK-wide statistics
Coherence of UK-wide statistics
Fragmentation of statistics
Co-ordination of UK statistics
The Government's response
9 Access to
statistics
Access to administrative data for government
statisticians
Access to government statistics for users
10 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
The Framework for National Statistics
Governance of the independent statistics
office
Establishing a non-ministerial department
Funding arrangements for the non-ministerial
department
Parliament's scrutiny role
Pre-release of statistics
Devolution and UK-wide statistics
Formal minutes of the Treasury Sub-Committee
Formal minutes of the Treasury Committee
List of Witnesses
List of Written Evidence
List of reports from the Treasury Committee during the recent Parliament
List of Oral Evidence
Wednesday 24 May 2006
Wednesday 7 June 2006
Wednesday 14 June 2006
Written Evidence
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