Dear Alastair In July 2022, we wrote to you following our compliance check of the Scottish Health and Wellbeing Census in July 2022. In this letter, we requested that the Scottish Government review its approach to developing questions for the Health and Wellbeing Census and that the outcomes of this review be made publicly available. To […]
Dear Oonagh We have independently reviewed the actions that Skills for Care has taken to address the three 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 of Trustworthiness, Quality and Value in the Code of Practice […]
Dear Sandy Assessment of the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland Today we have published our phase 3 assessment report of the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland. This report, our third and final report, focused on assessing how well NISRA’s census outputs have met users’ needs and revisited the requirements outlined in our phase 2 report […]
Dear Elaine We recently completed a compliance check of Social Security Scotland’s Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment statistics, which are both published as official statistics in development. To support their further development, we have carried out a high-level investigation into whether the statistics are being improved in line with the Code of Practice […]
Dear Ed, Today we published our action plan for improving the quality of police recorded crime statistics in England and Wales. This was developed in response to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) review of the quality of police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales. I would like to thank your team for its positive […]
Dear Ed, We are writing in response to your letter setting out your intention to review Household total wealth in Great Britain – the latest statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) – for compliance with key elements of the Code of Practice for Statistics. WAS is an important and unique source of data […]
Dear Alex, Jen We previously set out an intention to undertake further regulatory work on response issues impacting household surveys used across the statistics landscape. To start this work, we plan to undertake a review of Household total wealth in Great Britain – the latest statistics from the Wealth and Assets Survey – of compliance […]
Dear OSR We are writing to you as the Chairs of the Sex Equality and Equity Network for NHS employees (SEEN in Health) which launched on 11th May 2024. Our mission is to create an environment in the NHS where staff are encouraged to raise issues related to the protected characteristic of sex and feel […]
Dear Chairs, Thank you for your letter outlining your concerns regarding the NHS staff survey in relation to the use of the term ‘gender’ in certain questions. As the regulator for official statistics, our role is to ensure that official statistics are produced in accordance with the principles of trustworthiness, quality, and value as outlined […]
Dear Stephanie We recently completed a compliance check of council tax statistics produced by the Welsh Government against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We completed this review as part of a series of compliance checks on council tax statistics produced in Great Britain (GB). The scope of this review included the annual dwellings, levels and […]