Dear Graham Schools’ Costs Funding Thank you for your letter dated 27 April. You asked for the Office for Statistics Regulation’s view on whether the Department for Education has established that the teachers’ pay offer announced on 24th March has been fully funded, and whether your public explanations and statements on this subject have been […]
Dear Ed We are concerned about a Department for Education (DfE) evidence document, “Schools’ Costs 2022 to 2024”[1], and a follow-up blog, “Teacher strikes: Everything you need to know about the teacher pay offer”[2], which are being used by the Department for Education to justify their claim that schools can afford to fund eight ninths […]
Dear Mary and Kevin Schools’ Costs Funding Thank you for your letter on 20 April regarding Schools’ Costs 2022 to 2024 and Teacher strikes: Everything you need to know about the teacher pay offer published by the Department for Education. You raised a number of concerns with us regarding the evidence presented in these documents […]
Dear Will Home Office’s recent use of statistics and data Thank you for your detailed letter of 27 March about the Home Office’s recent use of statistics and data. We share your disappointment that claims continue to be made by Ministers that cannot be verified from the Home Office’s published statistics. We have been engaging […]
Dear Liz Updated Sustainable Development Goals article I am writing to welcome your decision to update your article on Sex and gender within the context of data collected for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The background is that I wrote to you last year about an article on your website that aimed to set out […]
Dear Nick, England and Wales Mortality Statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it an increased public interest in mortality statistics. We received enquiries about mortality statistics from a range of users, from politicians to the general public. Casework enquiries on mortality statistics typically focused on specific decisions […]
Dear Ally Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Teacher’s Toolkit on Ending Gender-Based Violence Thank you for raising concerns about the presentation of statistics and evidence on male victims of domestic abuse in the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) Teacher’s Toolkit on Ending Gender-Based Violence and Abuse in Young People’s Relationships. We […]
Dear Ed Scottish House Condition Survey 2021 I am writing to inform you of our intention to publish the key findings from the 2021 Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) as experimental statistics. Our intention is to return these statistics to National Statistics when we publish the 2022 survey analysis and I ask you to consider […]
Dear Alastair Scottish House Condition Survey 2021 Thank you for your letter outlining your intention to publish key findings from the 2021 Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) as experimental statistics. Given the changes required to data collection for SHCS 2021 due to COVID-19, and the new statistical methods employed, I support your proposal to publish […]
Dear Alastair National Statistics designation for the Scottish prison population statistics We have reviewed the actions that your team has taken to address the requirements in our Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Scottish prison population statistics. I would like to thank you and your team’s engagement with us during the […]