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 […]
Dear Regina Request for assessment of Northern Ireland Public Transport Statistics and Road Network and Condition Statistics Thank you for your letter of 11 December requesting the assessment of Northern Ireland Public Transport Statistics and Road Network and Condition Statistics produced by the Department for Infrastructure. I welcome your endeavours to publicly demonstrate the compliance […]
Dear Mr Humpherson I am writing as joint Senior Statistician in the Department for Infrastructure on behalf of and with the approval of the Minister for the Department. In accordance with Section 12(1) of the Statistics and Registration Act 2007, I would be grateful if the Office for Statistics Regulation can carry out an independent […]
Dear Ed I am writing in response to your letter of 12 September 2024 and the final report of Office for Statistics Regulation’s (OSR’s) review of gender identity estimates for England and Wales from Census 2021 published on the same date. I am pleased to be able to provide an update today on work underway in the […]
Dear Ed, Personal Well-being in the UK release The Office for National Statistics developed questions on personal well-being in 2011 asking respondents how satisfied they are with their life, whether they think the things they do in life are worthwhile, how happy they were yesterday and how anxious they were yesterday. We currently publish personal […]
Dear Grant, Temporary pause of Personal well-being in the UK release Thank you for your letter outlining your plans to pause this years’ accredited official statistics publication of Personal well-being in the UK due to concerns with the quality of the Annual Population Survey (APS) which has meant that you are unable to provide the […]
Dear Rebekah Temporary suspension of accredited official statistics status of Sea Fisheries Statistics Thank you for your letter regarding the accredited official statistics status of Sea Fisheries statistics. I recognise your professionalism in undertaking your review of the statistics and welcome your transparency in bringing your concerns to the attention of users. I fully support […]
Dear Ed, Temporary suspension of accredited official statistics status of Sea Fisheries Statistics I am writing to ask you to consider a temporary suspension to the accredited official statistics status of the Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO’s) Sea Fisheries Statistics (SFS) 2023, and associated publications. The annual SFS is currently an accredited official statistic (formally National […]
Dear Abbie Review of MoJ’s criminal court statistics I am writing to set out the focus of our review of the quality of the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) criminal court statistics. The background is that these statistics have not been published since March 2024 due to issues with the quality of the source data. As […]
Victoria Obudulu writing to Ed Humpherson to formally request an alternative release time of 2pm for the Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance reports.