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.
14 December 2018
Data governance sounds like an obvious thing to do, especially for statistics producers. We all have data so what could be more obvious than good governance that safeguards data uses…
7 December 2018
Ed Humpherson writes about stagnant productivity and stalling life expectancy.
26 October 2018
Pat MacLeod writes about why it’s not easy to say what’s happening to crime and the Office of National Statistics' (ONS) efforts to improve the public debate.
12 September 2018
Jeni Tennison, CEO of the Open Data Institute, responds to our Joining Up Data for Better Statistics report.
11 September 2018
To speak to people involved in linking Government datasets is to enter a world that at times seems so ludicrous as to be Kafkaesque.
7 September 2018
How to get on and influence people or what you need to know if you want to be part of important policy decisions.
3 August 2018
Mairi Spowage, Deputy Chief Executive at the Scottish Fiscal Commission, describes using the Code of Practice for Statistics in a forecasting organisation.
22 June 2018
Producers told us time and resource were barriers they faced to implementing change and yet we heard some great examples of how this is being tackled.
30 April 2018
Today we are publishing our Business Plan and Regulatory Work Programme for 2018 to 2019.
27 April 2018
Statistics are of value when they support society’s need for information; they should be useful, easy to access, remain relevant, and support understanding of important issues.