Should ginger nuts be available on the NHS? | Letters

Although the Treasury select committee wants to move responsibility for UK official statistics from the Cabinet Office to the Treasury (UK policymaking 'jeopardised by rubbish official statistics', theguardian.com, 29 February), the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) thinks this is the wrong move. Strengthening the independence of statistics is laudable, but bringing them under the purview of the Treasury would achieve the opposite perception and would be counterproductive for the government. There...