Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Chief Data Officer position in his Department has been filled; and if he will make a statement.
No. There is close co-operation between DCMS, GDS and ONS on data policy and governance, while strategic oversight for the collection and use of data held by government departments is currently provided by the cross-government Data Advisory Board, chaired by the Chief Executive of the Civil Service.