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22 March 2006

Independence for Statistics: A consultation document

On 28 November 2005, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced to Parliament the Government’s intention to legislate for independence in statistics.

Independence for statistics: a consultation document, published on 22 March 2006, set out the Government’s proposals, and invited views from all interested parties. The consultation process, which lasted for 12 weeks, generated significant interest, with nearly 80 responses received.

The Government has now published Independence for statistics: the Government response, which is available below.

The following documents are available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page .

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