It has been suggested that the House should have a greater role in holding Ministers to account when, for example, the board determines that some statistics should be national, but they have not been put forward. Given that there have been detailed criticisms of Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland in this House since 1995—for 12 years—and that the Treasury is looking into some of the detailed problems only this year, what confidence can we have that, after a 12-year wait to get one accurate statistic, any number of others of equal importance in other parts of the country will be considered any quicker?
Statistics and Registration Service Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stewart Hosie
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 March 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Statistics and Registration Service Bill.
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