Question follow-through · 19030
Office for Statistics Regulation and UK Statistics Authority: Accountability
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review governance arrangements for the (a) UK Statistics Authority and (b) Office for Statistical Regulation to make them more accountable to Parliament.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 54 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will review governance arrangements for the (a) UK Statistics Authority and (b) Office for Statistical Regulation to make them more accountable to Parliament.
1 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
As per the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007 the UK Statistics Authority (which includes the Office for Statistics Regulation) is directly accountable to the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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