Dear Ed, My team contacted the Office for Statistics Regulation in March this year when we became aware of an error affecting the data used in the Scottish Cervical Screening Programme statistics for the years 2016/17 to 2021/22i. These statistics report on the number of eligible women (and anyone with a cervix) who have a […]
Dear Richard Thank you for your letter setting out the error you have discovered as part of investigative work preparing to improve methods and production systems for Producer Price Indices (PPI). Based on the findings of your investigations, I agree to your request to temporarily remove the accredited official statistics status from the following outputs, […]
Dear Ed, On 21 March 2025 we announced a pause to the monthly publication of ONS Producer Price Indices (PPI) following the discovery of an error. The error also affects related series including the Import Price Index (IPI), Export Price Index (EPI), Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) and the deflators derived from these series. For […]
Dear Tim Review of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) Today we have published our compliance review of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), produced by the Gambling Commission. Thank you for inviting us to undertake this review, which has assessed the GSGB statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The overall […]
Dear Grant, We have completed our review of the UK trade statistics produced by Office for National Statistics (ONS). This report focused on reviewing the progress ONS has made in improving the trade statistics since their de-accreditation in 2014. Since 2014, ONS has made significant progress on improving the UK trade statistics and has successfully […]
Dear Ed, I wrote to you in October to request a temporary suspension of the accredited official statistics status for a number of Welsh Government’s statistical outputs derived from ONS’s Annual Population Survey (APS). This was in response to the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force […]
Dear Stephanie Suspension of the accredited official statistics status for the estimates for Wales produced from the Annual Population Survey Thank you for your letter setting out your most recent decision following the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), on which the Annual Population […]
Dear Rob, Thank you for your letter of 31 March highlighting the complaints you have received relating to our press release on 13 March entitled ‘Almost two million people on Universal Credit not supported to look for work’. I accept that the original statement, and the update we made after you alerted us to […]
Dear Ed, I am writing to formally request an alternative to the 9:30am release time relating to the release of Transformation of UK consumer price statistics, groceries scanner data analysis. This article will showcase our ability to produce CPI estimates based on groceries scanner data, with implementation planned for March 2026. User feedback has suggested that […]
Dear Rachel, Thank you for your request, made on 9 April 2025, for an alternative release time for your one-off Transformation of UK consumer price statistics, groceries scanner data analysis, April 2025 release. Having considered your reasons, I am content to approve your proposal to publish this analysis article at 7:00am. This decision is taken […]