Clause 58
Statistics and Registration Service Bill
Public Bill Committees, 25 January 2007, 1:30 pm
Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West, Labour)
I have a couple of questions for the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet. First, will she say which other body has the sort of funding and scrutiny arrangements proposed in the amendment? Secondly, she said that politicised interference in the budget process is a risk that she is concerned about and that the amendment is intended to address it. Has the ONS or the Statistics Commission, to her knowledge, ever complained about such politicised interference in the setting of their budgets?