1. The 27,500 scheme was recommended by a quality audit at the hospital, but could not get the go–ahead until the hospital‘s League of Friends offered a 20,000 donation.

2. Commission chairman David Rhind said, "the key to statistical quality management must be a sound understanding of the user requirement coupled with systematic assessment âЂ« or audit âЂ« of the underlying processes to ensure the figures are fit for that purpose." He added, that "such an approach should be managed centrally as a single cross–government programme that would be grounded in the assessment of risk and materiality." The Commission says that the protocols of the National Statistics Code of Practice on quality and data management are insufficiently rigorous as a quality assurance tool and should be modified to provide a suitable base for quality audit.