§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 26 October 1998,Official Report, column 35, if he will make it his policy that hon. Members should be able to obtain without payment tabulations of data sets which have been paid for from public funds and which are available from the Data Archive. [57220]
§ Ms HewittThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Steve Webb, dated 29 October 1998:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on the Data Archive.The Data Archive is a national resource centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). It is for the ESRC—which is outside of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's remit—to advise upon the charging policy for the Data Archive.