Office for National Statistics

  1. Ed Humpherson to James Benford: ONS Reports on Progress with Economic Statistics, December 2025: OSR response

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    Dear James,   We have today published our response to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s first quarterly progress reports on its Plan for Economic Statistics and Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan. This update represents an important step for ONS in demonstrating its progress in response to the findings of OSR’s systemic review of its economic statistics, including our interim and final report, and the recommendations of the Devereux review.  The report shows encouraging early progress. OSR particularly welcomes the resumption of regular publications of producer price statistics, the restoration of response rates to the Labour Force Survey […]

  2. James Benford to Ed Humpherson: ONS Reports on Progress with Economic Statistics, December 2025: OSR response

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    Dear Ed, Thank you for your letter setting out the Office for Statistics Regulation’s (OSR) assessment of our first quarterly progress reports on the Economic Statistics Plan and the Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan. Your suggestion that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish these quarterly reports has been helpful in creating a clear and […]

  3. James Benford to Ed Humpherson: Alternative Release Times for Economic Statistics

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    Dear Ed In your letter to my predecessor on 10 March 2025, you asked for an update by the end of 2025 on future reviews of our alternative release time of 0700 for economic statistics. As previously stated, we need to ensure that the ONS website is robust enough to manage the increased traffic we […]

  4. Ed Humpherson to James Benford: Alternative Release Times for Economic Statistics

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    Dear James,    Thank you for your update setting out your plans to review alternative release times for economic statistics. As detailed in our previous correspondence and under our Alternative Release Times (ART) policy, we expect producers to regularly review ARTs to ensure their decisions continue to serve the interests of statistics users and uphold the public good.  Your letter outlines how you plan to improve the ONS website and statistical […]

  5. Jen Woolford to Ed Humpherson: Review of the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales

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    Dear Ed, Review of the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales Today we published our action plan, Improving the quality of fraud and computer misuse statistics in England and Wales: December 2025. This was developed in response to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) review of fraud and computer misuse statistics […]

  6. Alex Lambert and Jen Woolford to Ed Humpherson: Review of statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey

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    Dear Ed, Review of statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey In June, you wrote to us supporting our request to suspend the accreditation of ONS’s core outputs using the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS). In your corresponding review of wealth statistics, you set out five requirements that ONS must meet to regain accreditation in […]

  7. Ed Humpherson to Alex Lambert and Jen Woolford: Review of statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS)

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    Dear Jen and Alex Review of statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) Thank you for your letter detailing the progress you are making towards the five requirements for improvement set out in our review of statistics from the WAS. We welcome the clear commitment to address these requirements and note the following: Comparability […]

  9. Ed Humpherson to Liz McKeown: Communication of transport insurance data in ONS consumer trends statistics

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    Dear Liz,    Communication of transport insurance data in ONS consumer trends statistics As you are aware, we were recently asked to review elements of the consumer trends data – in particular, the administrative costs of transport insurance from Table 12.5.4 of the series.   We are grateful to the team for its cooperation, and we welcome the steps that […]