Dear Ben, When the Office for Statistics Regulation published its review of intelligent transparency in Government last November, the UK Statistics Authority interim chair, Penny Young, wrote to Dan York-Smith highlighting the report’s findings and recommendations. The Chair’s letter included recommendations for the Number 10 data science team, and the Number 10 administrative team more […]
Dear Laura Statements on the number of people in work I know you and your colleagues responsible for briefing the Prime Minister take the accuracy of those briefings very seriously. I want to raise an issue with you related to employment. We have received correspondence from Full Fact about statements on the number of people […]
Dear Laura Use of official statistics on child poverty in Prime Minister’s Questions Over the last year, a number of concerns have been raised to us regarding the Prime Minister’s use of statistics on child poverty and in each case, we have brought this to the attention of the briefing team in No.10. Further concerns […]