Clause 2
Statistics and Registration Service Bill
12:00 pm
John Healey (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Wentworth, Labour)
It is a relief to get to clause 2, which sets out that the board will
“exercise its functions on behalf of the Crown.”
Consequently, the board’s property, rights and liabilities will be those of the Crown. The idea that the new board and its staff should be a Crown body was almost universally accepted and supported in our public consultations and in the Treasury Committee’s recent report. Therefore, the clause should stand part of the Bill.