[wdmmg-discuss] Whole of Government Accounts

Wed Jul 13 21:33:19 UTC 2011

Hi Johnathan, I tried to post a comment on this post but it isn't showing 
up on the blog.

The comment was:

I agree that there are certainly flaws in the WGA, and I agree that just 
one method for gathering data on local authority financing is too 
limiting.  But I wonder what are the better alternatives for calculating 
the macro economic measures like those published today. Do you think the 
National Accounts published by the ONS are a better alternative?

In terms of what to do with the data, I think that more interesting things 
will be published in Autumn, when the actual WGA report is published - not 
the unauided accounts like today.

It is worth seeing if the supporting data will be published then - that is 
all public body accounts used in WGA, in digitial form.

Lisa

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Great post from Dan Herbert on the Whole of Government Accounts data,
> released today:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/13/release-of-whole-of-government-accounts/
>
> Here's some further info:
>
> http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_government_accounts.htm
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/13/data-store-government-data
>
> Do we have any plans for this yet? ;-)
>
> J.
>
>