Dear Mr McMillan LEARNING DISABILITY STATISTICS SCOTLAND Thank you for your letter of 15 December, requesting temporary suspension of National Statistics status for Learning Disability Statistics Scotland because of data quality concerns. I welcome your team’s openness and engagement with us over the last few months on this. Your plans to liaise with Public Health […]
Dear Joan Northern Ireland prosecution and conviction statistics As you are aware, we recently completed our compliance check of the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Northern Ireland prosecution and conviction statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The statistics we reviewed are: Court Prosecution, Conviction and Out of Court Disposal Statistics for Northern Ireland First Time Entrant Statistics to the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland Case Processing […]
Dear Victoria Data to support statement made by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care I am writing to express my thanks to you and your team for the commitment you have shown to share data to support public understanding of COVID-19 in such a fast-moving environment. It is good to see publication of data to support the statement made […]
Dear Sean HMRC Betting and Gaming Statistics I am writing to you following our recent review of HMRC’s Betting and Gaming statistics. We carried out this compliance check as part of our follow-up monitoring of HMRC’s progress against the recommendations set out in the quality review of HMRC’s official statistics that we completed in spring 2020. I […]
Dear Deborah, Thank you for contacting my team about an exemption from the Code of Practice for Statistics to permit a later release time for NISRA’s weekly deaths statistics for the week ending 17 December 2021. You propose to publish on 23 December to avoid publication of the statistics on Christmas Eve. Given the circumstances […]
Dear Brian Assessment of Northern Ireland Broad Economy Sales and Exports Statistics We have completed our assessment of NISRA’s Broad Economy Sales and Exports Statistics (BESES). I am grateful for the positive engagement from you and your team throughout the assessment process. BESES Users value the statistics as they are the pre-eminent source of data on both sales […]
Dear Mr Wells Use of data on patients in specialist care by vaccination status Thank you for your emails. We have reviewed the tweets by the Secretary of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and associated article published by The Times. Today I have written to NHS England & Improvement (NHSE&I) to welcome the publication of statistics about the number of patients in […]
Dear Ian Funding for flood and coastal erosion risk management in England As you are aware we recently reviewed the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Funding for flood and coastal erosion risk management in England statistical publication against the Code of Practice for Statistics. Since the statistics were first published in response to […]
Dear Sandra Assessment of statistics on Statutory Homelessness in England Thank you for inviting us to assess DLUHC’s statistics on Statutory Homelessness in England against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have today published our Assessment Report covering these statistics. I am grateful for the positive contribution and engagement from your team throughout the assessment process. We welcome the significant and ambitious […]
Dear Ed, Thank you for your letter of 27th September. You will be aware of our intentions to improve the information available in relation to those with a No Recourse to Public Funds condition from the regular conversations we have had with the OSR on this topic. However, I thought it might be helpful to […]