Dear Alastair 

Suspension of accredited official statistics status from Labour Force Survey-based estimates 

I write to acknowledge your actions taken in response to ONS’s decision to suspend the accredited official statistics status (called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007) from its LFS-based estimates, as these estimates are also used within your own Labour Market outputs.   

We support your decision to remove the accredited official statistics status from your monthly Labour Market Trends outputs. 

Yours sincerely  

Ed Humpherson
Director General for Regulation