Dear Ian Alternative Release Time for the UK Food Security Report Thank you for contacting me to request an alternative release time for UK Food Security Report. Under legislation the report must be laid before Parliament before it is made available in the public domain. Having considered these circumstances, I agree that an exemption to […]
Dear Mike Assessment of Business Investment statistics We have completed our quality-focused assessment of ONS’s statistics on Business Investment. This is the sixth assessment in our Spotlight on Quality programme, which aims to provide continued assurance that the UK statistical system produce high quality economic statistics. ONS publishes its Business Investment Statistics as accredited official […]
Dear Jen Accreditation of the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales We have now completed our review of the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). You asked us to consider reinstating the accreditation of the CSEW estimates following the temporary suspension of the accreditation in July 2022 due […]
Dear Scott, Re: Waiting times statistics in Scotland – Issues relating to the NHS informs website and the number of people waiting for appointments Thank you for your letter setting out the forthcoming work that you are planning to undertake to address some of the recent issues regarding waiting times data interpretation in Scotland. I […]
Dear Ed, Waiting times statistics in Scotland – Issues relating to the NHS informs website and the number of people waiting for appointments My team in Public Health Scotland (PHS) have been liaising with your office on two separate issues relating to the presentation of waiting times statistics in Scotland. I am writing to give […]
Dear Mike Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) We have completed our quality-focused assessment of ONS’s statistics on the Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Your team requested an assessment of these statistics following their introduction for Great Britain (GB) in March 2024. PIPR’s development aims to fill a long-standing gap […]
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 actions following the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), on which the Annual Population Survey (APS) […]
Dear Ed, In light of the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in February 2024, we have reviewed compliance with the Code of Practice for the Wales statistics derived from ONS’s Annual Population Survey (APS). Due to the larger achieved sample on the APS […]
Dear Mike Suspension of the accredited official statistics status for the estimates ONS produces from the Annual Population Survey Thank you for your letter setting out the outcomes of your evaluation of the quality of the statistics produced using the Annual Population Survey (APS). We agree with your findings, and therefore agree to your request […]
In my previous letter, I explained the challenge of lower response rates of the main sample of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and the additional sample used to build the Annual Population Survey (APS). I committed to respond with our assessment of APS quality, including the feedback provided by key users at a workshop that […]