Dear Tony, ONS Economic Statistics Plan, Consumer Prices and UKSA Board and Panels Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2025 and your follow-up enquiries on 5 September. You expressed concerns with the status of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s CPI and CPIH statistics as accredited official statistics. As mentioned in my letter […]
Dear Ed, Thank you and Rob for the recent discussion, it was gratifying to hear that the OSR has valued some of our commentary. However, without wishing to carp in any way, I continue to believe our contribution would have been greater had there been a clearer understanding of the structure and purpose of the […]
Dear Tony, Thank you for your letter dated 8 January 2025 and your subsequent correspondence about inflation statistics on 27 January. You made several points about the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH), recommending their de-accreditation. As we have discussed previously, these statistics are undergoing an […]
Dear Ed, Thank you for your recent letter in response to our comments on the OSR’s reviews of the Winter CIS and other issues. Although I accept that there has been some progress in demonstrating OSR’s independence from the ONS, I believe there is further to go before Merle and others are likely to accept […]
Dear Tony, Household Costs Indices Thank you for your letter dated 14th December 2023, relating to the publication of the Household Costs Indices (HCIs), and more widely relating to the UK’s suite of inflation statistics. I hope you and your colleagues had a good festive break and I wish you all a Happy New Year […]
Dear Ed, Following the publication of the quarterly HCI’s on 5th December, I attended Tuesday’s informative discussion on those measures, as hosted by the Royal Statistical Society in collaboration with the Resolution Foundation; where the event was held. Almost universally the HCI’s were welcomed by the various speakers, including Paul Lewis, the journalist and broadcaster […]
Ed Humpherson responds to Tony Dent of Better Statistics CIC following concerns around statistics production and the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Tony Dent of Better Statistics CIC writes to Ed Humpherson following concerns around statistics production and the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Ed Humpherson writes to Tony Dent addressing concerns raised by Better Statistics CIC.
Tony Dent emails Ed Humpherson following up a conversation on Representation, CIS & Value for Money.