A colleage has pointed this out to me:
"114. The Government has also announced further changes to help improve
trust in statistics. The British public expect, and the British media
demands, that Ministers are able to account immediately for the
implications of statistics about policy areas for which they are
democratically responsible. Some have suggested, however, that the
existing arrangements for giving Ministers advance sight of National
Statistics are overly generous and contribute to a perception of
Ministerial interference in statistics, which in turn has an impact on
trust in statistics. The Government therefore previously announced its
intention to reduce pre-release such access from up to five days (as
now) to 40.5 hours for all statistics. Recognising the continuing
concern about pre-release arrangements, the Government will go even
further, reducing pre-release access to National Statistics to a maximum
of *24 hours*. This tightening of current arrangements will be set out
in secondary legislation, alongside rules and principles to guide
departments in reducing the number of people that receive pre-release
access, and to which statistics."
From this week's "The Governance of Britain" Green Paper,
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm71/7170/7170.pdf,
Mike
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Institute for Fiscal Studies, www.ifs.org.uk, 020 72914800
Registered Office: 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
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