Witnesses
At 4.30pm, Monday 11 November 2013, Grimond Room, Portcullis House
- Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Minister for Business and Enterprise, BIS
- Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society, Cabinet Office
- Jil Matheson, National Statistician, UK Statistics Authority
- Glen Watson, Director General, Office for National Statistics
- Sean Whellams, Head of Statistics Profession, HMRC
Objectives of the session
The objectives of this session are:
- to assess the aims and coherence of the Government’s Open Data strategy and whether the Government has the will and capacity to make it happen
- to ask the National Statistician and two of her colleagues what the profession can contribute to the implementation of the strategy.
