Question follow-through · 40583

Statistics

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to lay a new Official Statistics Order to designate the National Data Library’s statistical outputs as official statistics.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 24 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 26 Mar 2025
Answer: 31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to lay a new Official Statistics Order to designate the National Data Library’s statistical outputs as official statistics.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 24th March is attached.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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