Source · Select Committees · Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Recommendation 8
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Current delays in People Survey data publication are indefensible and lack transparency.
Conclusion
It is not clear to us that withholding People Survey data, so as to time its release with countless publications about Ministerial gifts, hospitality and expenses, is truly a transparent, or helpful, approach to the publication of the important data collected by the People Survey. We similarly find it difficult to believe that, in 2023, it takes a small team of statisticians several months to migrate results from internal dashboards and analyses into a single Excel spreadsheet for publication. Given that data and extensive analyses are readily available across government months ahead of their public release, current delays in the publication of data are indefensible.
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Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 18 January 2024. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗