Clause 5
Statistics and Registration Service Bill
9:30 am
Mark Hoban (Shadow Minister, Treasury; Fareham, Conservative)
I am slightly curious about the impact of amendments Nos. 128 and 129. Under clause 29(4),
“The Board may direct the National Statistician...as to how he should exercise a particular function.”
Would the consequence of the hon. Lady’s amendments be that the board would not be able to direct the National Statistician on how to exercise a particular function? If he is doing something wrong and continues to do so, should the board, in her view, be unable to tell him to correct his mistakes?