Bosses return for second session of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on performance of the UK Statistics Authority

The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee will hold the second session of its inquiry into the work of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) next Tuesday. 

The session has been organised after the Committee was left unsatisfied by the answers received in this week's hearing. The Committee concluded there is ‘still a lot of territory to cover' and will therefore continue questioning the UKSA Chair, the acting National Statistician and the Office for Statistical Regulation's (OSR) Director General.  

All three witnesses will be questioned for a second time on the performance of the UKSA, and its two executive offices: the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the OSR.   

The Committee is likely to ask questions about the ONS's budget and planning, the UKSA's relationship with the Cabinet Office, as well as some of the ONS's most important programmes: the integrated data service and the transformed Labour Force Survey.  

Witnesses:       

·                Sir Robert Chote, Chair, UK Statistics Authority 

·                Emma Rourke, Interim National Statistician, UK Statistics Authority and Office for National Statistics 

·                Ed Humpherson, Head of the Office for Statistics Regulation