Jack Hibbert

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Sir Jack Hibbert

Sir Jack Hibbert was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on 14 February 1932. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the London School of Economics and was married with two sons and one daughter. He died on 23 August 2005 in Weybridge, Surrey.

Career

Hibbert joined the Exchequer and Audit Department in 1952 and then moved to the

When Jack Hibbert took over the CSO, it had suffered four years of cutbacks following the 'Rayner Review' of official statistics. Shortly after this, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, and other Conservative politicians claimed that misleading statistics were largely responsible for the Government's poor handling of the economy. The Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee recommended 'a thorough review into the operation of various Departments involved in the collection of national accounts statistics'. The review, by Stephen Pickford, recommended that there should be just one organisation responsible for the collection and compilation of statistics for national accounts.

This meant moving the

• Lynch, R. (2006), Sir Jack Hibbert, 1932–2005, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 169 (2), pp 382–383.
• Lynch, R., Obituary: Sir Jack Hibbert, The Independent, 12 September 2005, retrieved on 15 May 2007 17:27.
• Ward, R. & Doggett, T. (1991), Keeping Score: The First Fifty Years of the Central Statistical Office, London:
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