PASC announces major inquiry into UK statistics
The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has today announced a major inquiry into how statistics are working in the UK and being used by government. The Committee intends to conduct ...
View ArticleHelp shape Society response to major House of Commons inquiry on official...
Interested fellows are invited to take part in developing the Royal Statistical Society’s response to the House of Commons’ Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) inquiry into UK ...
View ArticleRSS gives evidence at Public Administration Select Committee scrutinising...
Last week the Society was invited to give evidence to the Public Administration select committee (PASC) as part of an ongoing programme scrutinising the operation of the Statistics and Registration ...
View ArticleONS website criticised in PASC inquiry
The website of the Office for National Statistics has been widely criticised by MPs, journalists and users of official statistics, in a parliamentary inquiry looking into the way statistics are ...
View ArticleGovernment rejects recommendations regarding pre-release access to official...
The Public Administration Select Committee has published both the government and the UK Statistics Authority responses to its report Public Trust in Government Statistics (opens as pdf). One ...
View ArticleMPs urge action to combat ‘spinning’ of statistics in departmental press...
The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has warned that government statistics press releases ‘do not always give a true and fair picture of the story behind official ...
View ArticleMPs launch inquiry into government open data strategy
The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has launched a further study into statistics and their use in government, this time examining the implementation of the government's open data ...
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