The UK House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has produced its Eighth Report, entitled Peer review in scientific publications. If the Committee's recommendations are implemented, open data and data management advocates will get a boost as the Committee recommends in para 184:

"... that reproducibility should be the gold standard that all peer reviewers and editors aim for when assessing whether a manuscript has supplied sufficient information, about the underlying data and other materials, to allow others to repeat and build on the experiments."

They recommend the funding of more repositories for data deposit (para 189), and advocate open data in para 203:

"... data should be fully disclosed and made publicly available. In line with this principle, where possible, data associated with all publicly funded research should be made widely and freely available."

While recognising that peer review is not perfect, the Committee recommends

"In order for current peer-review practices to be optimised and innovative approaches introduced, publishers, research funders and the users of research outputs (such as industry and government) must work together."