Dear Jen, Accreditation of the domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales We have today published our compliance review report covering the domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We recognise that domestic abuse is a sensitive topic […]
Dear Grant, Compliance review of CPI and CPIH statistics We have completed our compliance review of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics. Our review looked at how ONS is handling its transformation programme for the consumer price […]
Dear Ed, Office for National Statistics (ONS) Response to Office for Statistics regulation’s (OSR’s) Systemic Review of Economic Statistics Thank you for your letter of 7 August 2025, and your warm welcome. I look forward to working with you. I welcome your judgement that the Economic Statistics Plan, alongside the Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan […]
Dear Emma, OSR response to ONS’s follow-up letter regarding OSR’s Admin-Based Population Estimates Assessment in England and Wales Thank you for your letter outlining the progress your teams have made in response to the requirements detailed in our published phase one Assessment of ONS’s ABPEs in England and Wales report. There has been a substantial […]
Dear James, First of all, congratulations on your appointment as Director General for the Economic, Social and Environmental Group. I wish you every success in the role. On 26 June, Grant Fitzner wrote to inform me that ONS had published its Economic Statistics Plan. On the same day, ONS also published its Survey Improvement and […]
Dear Ed, Response to Phase 3 assessment report: 2021 Census in England and Wales Thank you for your letters on 12 June 2025 outlining the Census phase 3 assessment report and OSR’s review of gender identity estimates for England and Wales from Census 2021. Your feedback is at a pivotal time when we begin preparations […]
Dear Grant, Jane, We have independently reviewed the actions that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have taken to address the six 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 […]
Dear Ed, On 15 July 2024, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) published initial findings on the new methods that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is developing to produce population estimates for England and Wales, using administrative data sources. We are now writing to update you on progress since your review. Our recent focus […]
Dear Emma We have today published our review: The adequacy of UK-wide comparable statistics and data. This is in response to a recommendation in the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC)’s report Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base, which set out the challenges and opportunities in obtaining comparable data across the four nations of the […]
Dear Ed, Response to Systemic Review of Economic Statistics In response to the Systemic Review of Economic Statistics, published by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) in April 2025, I am writing to update you that today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published Restoring confidence, improving quality: The plan for ONS economic statistics. […]