Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
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22 January 2026
One year ago today, the UK’s inaugural Statistics Assembly took place in London. The word ‘world-leading’ can be overused. But it is not out of place to describe an exercise…
22 February 2024
In our latest blog Director General for Regulation, Ed Humpherson, discusses the divergence between internal positivity and external scepticism about analysis in Government, and how transparency is key to benefitting…
12 September 2023
In our latest blog, Regulator Anna discusses our intelligent transparency campaign, and recently updated guidance. There’s a line in the musical Hamilton which goes: “No one really knows…How the sausage…
29 April 2022
Dr Mary Cowan explores the findings of PCOS 2021, which suggests that official statistics are relevant and accessible to many members of the public. However, there are still some who…
1 April 2022
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
20 October 2021
Over the past 18 months we’ve talked a lot about transparency. We’ve made public interventions such as our call for UK governments to provide more transparency around COVID data, and…
12 March 2021
As part of our work on statistical leadership, we are hosting a series of guest blogs. This blog is from Will Moy, Chief Executive of Full Fact.