Office for Statistics Regulation

  1. Ed Humpherson to Emma Rourke: OSR response to ONS’s follow-up letter regarding OSR’s Admin-Based Population Estimates Assessment in England and Wales

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Office for National Statistics

    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 […]

  2. Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Abbie Self: Compliance review of coroners statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Ministry of Justice

    Dear Abbie, Compliance review of coroners statistics We recently completed a compliance review of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)’s coroners statistics against the standards of the Code of Practice for Statistics. Our review considered whether MoJ can continue to publish the statistics as accredited official statistics.  Based on the findings of the review, it is […]

  3. Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Regina McGeown: Pause letter for assessment of Northern Ireland road network and condition statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)

    Dear Regina, I am writing with an update on the requested assessment of the Northern Ireland Road Network and Condition Statistics. These statistics were produced to rectify a data gap identified by the Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) in its report on Structural Maintenance of the Road Network. My team has found that these data […]

  4. Ed Humpherson to James Benford: Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Response to Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)’s Systemic Review of Economic Statistics 

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Office for National Statistics

    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 […]

  5. Emma Rourke to Ed Humpherson: Response to Phase 3 assessment report – 2021 Census in England and Wales

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    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 […]

  6. Sarah Alloway-Lasher to Ed Humpherson: Suspension of official statistics accreditation

    Sent from: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, I am writing to request the suspension of the official statistics accreditation for the DCMS Sector Economic Estimates: Employment series. If you agree, we would publish this summer’s Economic Estimates: Employment in DCMS sectors, January 2024 to December 2024 as official statistics in development.  Our employment outputs are created using the Office for […]

  7. Ed Humpherson to Sarah Alloway-Lasher: Suspension of official statistics accreditation

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

    Dear Sarah, Thank you for your letter setting out findings from your review of DCMS Sector Economic Estimates: Employment series statistics, following the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for ONS labour market statistics based on the Annual Population Survey (APS).  Your publication is based on APS microdata and is used to estimate the […]

  8. Stephanie Howarth to Ed Humpherson: National Survey for Wales request to suspend Accredited Official Statistics status

    Sent from: Welsh Government

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, The National Survey for Wales is designed to meet user needs for data on a wide range of topics at different geographical levels within Wales, down to local authority level. The achieved sample size for 2024-25 (6,000 respondents) is smaller than originally planned, and so for this year it will not be possible […]

  9. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Response to National Survey for Wales request to temporarily suspend Accredited Official Statistics status 

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie,    Thank you for your letter requesting a temporary suspension for the accredited official statistics status for outputs based on the 2024-2025 National Survey for Wales data. This request is due to a smaller than expected achieved sample size for the survey in 2024-25 which will impact on the quality of estimates at lower […]

  10. Tim Miller to Ed Humpherson: Gambling Commission response to the OSR review of the Gambling Survey of Great Britain

    Sent from: Gambling Commission

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, Thank you for undertaking your compliance review of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, our new official statistics on gambling behaviours in Great Britain. We are pleased that you recognised the hard work the team has put into developing and delivering the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, securing access for both the Commission […]