Department for Work and Pensions

  1. Ed Humpherson to Steve Ellerd-Elliot: Assessment of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Benefit Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve Assessment of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Benefit Statistics We have today published the assessment report on these statistics. I am grateful for the positive engagement of your team throughout the assessment process. The DWP benefit statistics publication brings together key statistics on DWP administered benefits and acts as a compendium of benefit statistics, where the frequency and reference […]

  2. Ed Humpherson to Steve Ellerd-Elliott: Confirmation of National Statistics Designation for National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals Entering the UK Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve, Confirmation of National Statistics Designation for National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals Entering the UK Statistics  In January 2017 the Office for Statistics Regulation undertook an assessment of Statistics on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals produced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). We assessed the statistics reported […]

  3. Ed Humpherson to Peter Schofield: Universal Credit management information

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Peter UNIVERSAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Thank you for your response to our letter dated 22 April, which sets out the future publication of information on Universal Credit. Our understanding is that you will be publishing a weekly management information series summarising declarations made by individuals and households to Universal Credit and information on advance […]

  4. Response from Peter Schofield to Ed Humpherson: Universal Credit management information

    Sent from: Department for Work and Pensions

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, UNIVERSAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Thank you for your letter of 22 April. I was pleased to read your positive comments about the supplementary information we have published alongside our Official Statistics but I equally recognise your concerns around the use of unpublished information and that the release did not include all of the […]

  5. Ed Humpherson to Steve Ellerd-Elliott: Universal Credit management information

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve UNIVERSAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION  I am writing to welcome the publication of supplementary management information on Universal Credit yesterday by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), alongside the regular Official Statistics release, but also to share our concerns about how this differs from the information that was preannounced. Universal Credit continues to […]

  6. Compliance Check of DWP Universal Credit Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve UNIVERSAL CREDIT STATISTICS As you are aware, we recently completed a compliance check of the DWP Universal Credit (UC) statistics. We considered the trustworthiness, quality and value of these statistics in relation to the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have made a number of recommendations to support your continued development of these important […]

  7. Compliance Check of DWP Benefit Cap Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve BENEFIT CAP STATISTICS As you are aware, we recently completed a compliance check of the DWP Benefit Cap statistics. We considered the trustworthiness, quality and value of these statistics in relation to the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have made a number of recommendations to support your continued development of these important experimental […]

  8. Statements on ‘new jobs’

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Steve Thank you for responding to my query regarding an article published in the Daily Telegraph on the 21st April 2019, in which the Minister of State for Employment, Alok Sharma MP, was discussing UK employment. The original article made several statements, such as that “Britons have filled nearly all of the new jobs […]

  9. Ed Humpherson to Neil McIvor: Assessment of Statistics on Employment and Support Allowance: Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments, Great Britain

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Work and Pensions

    Dear Neil Assessment of Statistics on Employment and Support Allowance: Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments, Great Britain Thank you for the correspondence outlining the actions that have been taken to address the requirements in Assessment Report number 242 on Statistics on Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments. On behalf of the Board of the Statistics Authority, […]