Source · Select Committees · Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Recommendation 5
5
Not Addressed
Paragraph: 45
When Ministers or senior officials quote statistics, the underlying data must be published.
Recommendation
When Ministers or senior officials quote statistics, the underlying data must be published. This is already an Office for Statistics Regulation expectation, and OSR should continue to inform this Committee—as it has throughout this inquiry—when it finds examples of statistics that are quoted without published data to back them up.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response discusses the roles of COBR and SAGE, along with principles for scientific advice. It does not address the recommendation that ministers must publish underlying data when quoting statistics or that OSR should inform the Committee of non-compliance.
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45
Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government is committed to transparency and will endeavour to publish all statistics and underlying data when referenced publicly, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. 2 Government’s response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2019–21
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