Dear Sir Ian, Thank you for your letter of 23 March 2020. I am happy to confirm the exemption from the relevant practice in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This is sensible and proportionate in the circumstances. Yours sincerely Ed Humpherson Director General for Regulation Related Links: Sir Ian Diamond to Ed Humpherson (March […]
Dear Ed, We are currently working through our contingency planning on many aspects of statistical production and publication in light of the disruption being caused to the UK’s society by COVID-19. One aspect of our work that is coming under immediate pressure is our secure briefing facility or ‘lock in’ process. As set out on […]
Dear Grant, COMPLIANCE CHECK OF BUSINESS INVESTMENT IN THE UK STATISTICS As you are aware, we recently concluded a review of Business investment in the UK. This letter confirms our findings and the continued designation of these statistics as National Statistics. We scheduled Business Investment statistics for review based on their importance in gauging the […]
Mark Pont writes to representatives of NRS, NISRA, ONS and Welsh Government on subnational population projections, 28 January 2020.
Dear Hugh PUBLIC SERVICE PRODUCTIVITY: ADULT SOCIAL CARE STATISTICS Thank you for inviting us to carry out a check of compliance of ONS’s statistics on public service productivity for adult social care in England with the Code of Practice for Statistics. This compliance check complements our wider review of adult social care statistics in the […]
Dear Iain, Today, we have published the findings from our review of Adult Social Care statistics in England. Through this review we have identified a number of areas where improvements are required. While there is rightly a focus on delivery of social care, a scarcity of funding has led to under investment in data and […]
Letter from Ed Humpherson to Jonathan Athow on the assessment of ONS’ Purchases Survey statistics, 17 December 2019.
Ed Humpherson writes to Iain Bell on the Migration Statistics Quarterly Report, 4 November 2019.
Ed Humpherson writes to Iain Bell on the compliance check of ONS statistics on Overseas Travel and Tourism, 29 October 2019.
Dear Ed, I am writing in response to concerns that have been raised about our recent publication “Baby Names in England and Wales: 2018” on 29 August 2019. The concerns were centred around a claim that “Various spellings of the name Muhammad combined rank number one for most popular boys name in England and Wales […]