Food and Rural Affairs

  1. Ed Humpherson to Ian Lonsdale: Alternative Release Time for the UK Food Security Report 

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian  Alternative Release Time for the UK Food Security Report Thank you for contacting me to request an alternative release time for UK Food Security Report. Under legislation the report must be laid before Parliament before it is made available in the public domain.   Having considered these circumstances, I agree that an exemption to […]

  2. Ed Humpherson to Ian Lonsdale: Statistics about Butterflies, England and UK, Confirmation of Accredited Official Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian Statistics about Butterflies, England and UK: Confirmation of accredited official statistics status We have independently reviewed the actions your team has taken to address the four requirements outlined in our assessment report. On behalf of the Board of the UK Statistics Authority, I am pleased to confirm that they comply with the standards […]

  3. Ed Humpherson to Ian Lonsdale: Assessment of Statistics from the People and Nature Survey England

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian Assessment of statistics from the People and Nature Survey for England Following our assessment of statistics from the People and Nature Survey for England produced by Natural England, we set out four requirements that we judged that you needed to meet in order for these statistics to become accredited official statistics. Accredited official […]

  4. Ed Humpherson to Ian Lonsdale: Assessment of Statistics about butterflies, England and UK

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian Assessment of statistics about butterflies, England and UK We have completed our assessment of statistics from the Butterflies in England and Butterflies in the United Kingdom publications produced by Defra. I am grateful for the positive contribution and engagement from your team throughout the assessment process. Our assessment found that the statistics are […]

  5. Mark Pont to Ian Lonsdale: Wild bird population statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian Wild bird populations in England and the UK Thank you for inviting us to review your Wild bird populations in England and Wild bird populations in the UK statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics, alongside our review of Butterflies in England and Butterflies in the UK statistics. These are a valuable […]

  6. Ed Humpherson to Ian Lonsdale: Casework on the Assessment of Salmon Stocks and Fisheries in England and Wales

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ian  Casework on the Assessment of Salmon Stocks and Fisheries in England and Wales  We have recently been in touch with the teams involved in the production of the Assessment of Salmon Stocks and Fisheries in England and Wales statistics. This is a joint publication produced by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture […]