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The chairman of the British statistics authority is intended to step down and criticize himself violently because it enables “systemic” management failure that undermine the decisive economic data in order to be deactivated.
Sir Robert Chote According to a letter published on Tuesday, which was published on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Officer (PACAC), he told the cabinet office last month that he wanted to resign in autumn.
His departure follows the increasing problems with the quality of the economic data, the deep institutional problems with running the Office for national statisticswhat is monitored by UKSA’s board.
Chote and other high -ranking UKSA officials were published on Tuesday in front of the committee why the Board of Directors was not known about the extent of the problems of the ONS or they could tackle.
The Interim National Statistician Emma Rourke admitted that the ONS had not solved problems with project management, budget planning and morality of employees and at the same time the financing of his personnel functions had made profound cuts.
She said that delays to important programs were not due to one person or selection, but to “a systemic failure in a number of different factors” that had brought the internal evaluation of the ONS “in sharp relief”.
The departure of chote does not allow three positions at the top of the British statistics system. This includes the role of the national statistics, which was previously held by Sir Ian Diamond, and a newly created position of the constant secretary of ONS, which will lead to the statistics authority a turning effort.
“I hope that all of these new leaders will be available by the end of the year,” wrote the constant secretary of Kabinettsbüro Little to the committee.
She added that the “new cohort” would be “in a more credible position” to solve the systemic problems that raised the agency’s failures in a recently carried out review and react to Pacac’s own recommendations.
The problems with the British earning poll that Great Britain left without reliable unemployment remained undetected, since ONS hesitated to make concerns about high -ranking managers if they were considered excessively obstructive or negative.
“When did the board become literally nuclear?” Simon Hoare, committee chairman, asked on Tuesday at a hearing.
“It is noticeable to me that either the board was a supine position or those who had the responsibility to send things to the board … decided to effectively ignore the board if it is suitable.”
Chote, who will take a position as President of the Trinity College in Oxford, said that the board of directors had concerns concerns about the leadership of the ONS because of his failure, disregarding concerns about the morals of employees at an earlier point in time.
He added that he had returned the ongoing concerns in the cabinet office among the employees, in a process that finally led to the department commissioned.
