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OSR welcomes changes to pre-release access in Scotland

5 March 2021 — Statement

Yesterday, the Scottish Parliament passed legislation that change pre-release access arrangements to official statistics produced by the Scottish Government. The Office for Statistics Regulation’s Director General previously set out the…

OSR and RSS launch Code of Practice award for 2021

3 March 2021 — Announcement

We are now accepting entries for our 2021 Award for Statistical Excellence in Trustworthiness, Quality and Value, awarded in partnership with the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and Civil Service World. Previously…

OSR publishes its review of the approach to developing statistical models to award 2020 exam results

2 March 2021 — Announcement

The Office for Statistics Regulation has today published a review of the approach to developing statistical models to award 2020 exam results. As the regulator of official statistics in the…

OSR publish draft guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex

25 February 2021 — Statement

The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today published draft guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex. This guidance sets out our expectations on producers with respect to using…

Statement: OSR calls for further progress on vaccination data in response to PACAC inquiry

10 February 2021 — Statement

Yesterday Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority wrote to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) in response to its request for evidence for its Data…

OSR statement on the impact of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey

5 February 2021 — Statement

We continue to be impressed by the pace at which organisations have adapted their data collection and dissemination processes to provide necessary information on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting…

Office for Statistics Regulation highlights widespread and critical need for excellence in statistical leadership

3 February 2021 —

Today, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published its review on Statistical Leadership, it highlights the importance of Governments across the UK showing leadership in use of numbers and…

UK Data on Hospital Capacity and Occupancy

17 December 2020 — Statement

In many cases, data on hospital capacity and occupancy are not easy to find or interpret. To help users, we’ve examined a range of outputs to see if we can answer some straightforward questions that we have been…

OSR publishes its review: The public good of statistics; what we know so far

9 December 2020 — Announcement

Today we have published our review ‘The public good of statistics; what we know so far’. This review has been published as part of our Research Programme launched in 2019,…

OSR launches its review of poverty statistics

20 November 2020 — Announcement

Following on from our blog published earlier this year on the trouble with measuring poverty, we are beginning our review on income-based poverty statistics in the UK. We’ve been working…