Response – Request for Assessment: Northern Ireland Planning Statistics

Dated: 3 October 2019
Last updated on: 3 October 2019
Sent by:: Ed Humpherson
Director General for Regulation, Office for Statistics Regulation
Sent to:: Michael Thompson
Principle Statistician, Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)

Dear Michael,

ASSESSMENT OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND PLANNING STATISTICS AS NATIONAL STATISTICS

Thank you for your letter of 26 September requesting the assessment of the Northern Ireland Planning Statistics, produced by the Department for Infrastructure.

I welcome your endeavours to publicly demonstrate the compliance of these statistics with the Code of Practice for Statistics. I am pleased to confirm that my team will shortly be in touch with you and your team to agree the timing for this assessment.

Yours sincerely

Ed Humpherson
Director General for Regulation