Mark Pont writes to Ian Knowles of the Department for Transport following a compliance check of the statistics published in Transport: disability and accessibility statistics, England.
Dear Jon, Enhancing data and statistics about those subject to no recourse to public funds (NRPF) Thank you for your letter dated 13 January 2022 in which you provided an update on the Home Office’s work on No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) statistics. As you will be aware, NRPF is a condition attached to […]
Mark Pont, Assessment Programme Lead writes to Siobhan Carey, CBE following a review of NISRA’s Women in Northern Ireland Statistics, against the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Dear Grant UK Trade Statistics – resilience of the statistics to economic shocks We recently completed our compliance check examining the resilience of UK Trade statistics to the economic shocks of EU Exit and the Covid-19 pandemic. We commend ONS on the impressive steps it has taken in responding to these twin economic shocks and protecting the integrity […]
Dear Scott Assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics Thank you for your letter of 1 February requesting an assessment of the NHS Scotland workforce statistics, produced by NHS Education for Scotland. I welcome your endeavours to publicly demonstrate the compliance of these statistics with the Code of Practice for Statistics. I am pleased to […]
Dear Ed, Request for Assessment for National Statistics Designation As you are aware, in April 2019, responsibility for the production of NHS Scotland’s workforce statistics passed from the Information Services Division (ISD) to NHS Education for Scotland (NES). These statistics were designated as “National Statistics” when produced by ISD and we agreed to temporarily de-designate […]
Dear Darren Inclusion of VAT data in Short-Term Economic Outputs I am writing to you following our recent review of ONS’s use of VAT data in producing Short-Term Economic Outputs. We carried out this compliance check to assess progress following ONS’s latest plans announced in 2018 to implement VAT data into a variety of outputs. […]
Dear Will Statements on the number of people in work Thank you for your detailed letter of 21 January about statements on employment. It is disappointing to see incorrect claims about the number of people in work on repeated on multiple occasions. As you have set out, the statements referred to the number of UK […]
Dear Ed Humpherson, I write to make you aware of an incorrect claim about the number of people in employment which has been made multiple times by the Prime Minister (and repeated by others) and ask for your potential engagement around it. The claim is that there are more people in work now than there […]
Dear Laura Statements on the number of people in work I know you and your colleagues responsible for briefing the Prime Minister take the accuracy of those briefings very seriously. I want to raise an issue with you related to employment. We have received correspondence from Full Fact about statements on the number of people […]