Lord Berkeley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2016-06-27.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Office of National Statistics’ statistical bulletin Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2015 published on 23 June was not subject to purdah before the EU referendum.

Lord Bridges of Headley

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.