audit commission and data quality:

The Audit Commission is currently able to monitor and advise participating organisations 
about the quality of the data provided to the Commission for the data matching process. 


Thus spake the Information Commissioner.

But who monitors and advises the Audit Commission when it 'libellously' alleges that its output indicates that people, thousands upon thousands of them, are making two inconsistent claims at the same time when they are not?   Nobody.  Complain about stuff and they ignore you or refer the complaint back to the very same people who made the mistake in the first place.


More significantly there is no sanction included for those who choose not to have regard to the code. If the 
code is to be an effective safeguard an effective sanction for those who ignore its 
provisions need to be in place and this sanction should be clear on the face of the 
legislation.

Quite, and it is the Audit Commission which is doing most of the ignoring, and which when in receipt of complaints that an exercise did not comply, brought forward proposals the modify the code, not change the exercise.