The Numbers Guy has an article titled This U.K. Sheriff Cites Officials for Serious Statistical Violations, and a corresponding blog post:
Mobilized by distressingly low levels of public trust in official statistics, the U.K. government is embarking on a daring, and possibly unique, experiment. With broad support, Parliament in 2007 approved the formation of the U.K. Statistics Authority, a group with the budget, authority and independence to question other government agencies on the numbers they release to the public. [...]The agency's task is a delicate one. If it uncovers reams of faulty data that might have been used in crafting public policy, Britons' fraying faith in public institutions could be further eroded.
Interesting, a truth-assurance agency would be a good thing, also useful for validating the truthfulness of other statements that often get twisted by marketing. We might be finally making progress with the problems that Josiah Stamp identified many years ago.
It should be renamed the UK Department of Truthiness.