Dear Sioned,  

Thank you for your letter requesting removal of the accredited official statistics status of four statistics transferred from Welsh Government to Medr.  

Given that you are a new producer of official statistics and your assessment that your statistical processes have been bedding in, I agree to your request to temporarily suspend the accredited official statistics status of the following statistics: 

• Students in higher education 

• Welsh language in higher education 

• Further education, work-based learning and community learning 

• Learner outcome measures for apprenticeships 

You also requested that we carry out an assessment of these statistics and two additional statistics: 

• Consistent performance measures for post-16 learning: Achievement 

• Apprenticeships learning programmes started 

I welcome your aspiration to publicly demonstrate your compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics. My team will continue to engage with your team about the assessment, and I look forward to sharing our findings with you in due course. 

Yours sincerely,  

Ed Humpherson
Director General for OSR