Dear Mark, Thank you for your correspondence on the OSR’s compliance check of Office for National Statistics (ONS) foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics and Department for International Trade (DIT) inward investment statistics, which followed up on recommendations made in your 2018 compliance check and those made by the House of Commons Select Committee on International […]
Dear Emma, Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status publication I am writing to you about the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 24 September 2021 release, which was published on 1 November. It is good that the ONS is looking to produce additional analysis to provide insight […]
Dear Martin Assessment of the NI Family Practitioner Services Statistics Thank you for your letter of 16 November requesting an assessment of the Northern Ireland (NI) Family Practitioner Services statistics, produced by the NI Heath and Social Care Business Services Organisation. I welcome your endeavours to publicly demonstrate the compliance of these statistics with the […]
Dear Mr Humpherson, I am writing as Senior Statistician in the Northern Ireland Heath and Social Care (HSC) Business Services Organisation (BSO) on behalf of and with the approval of the Chief Executive. BSO is a legally specified producer of Official Statistics and currently releases a range of quarterly and annual outputs related to its […]
Dear Simon, Violence Against Women and Girls funding I am pleased to see that the Home Office has now published data on cross government funding to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls. This information supports a statement made in the Tackling violence against women and girls strategy which was also quoted by the Home Secretary […]
Dear Victoria Seasonal flu vaccine uptake statistics Thank you for your correspondence requesting an exemption to the release time practice. When deciding the best time to release statistics we believe that the impact on serving the public good should be carefully considered. You have told us that this change will allow adequate time for quality […]
Dear Eugene Northern Ireland (NI) Outpatient Waiting Time Statistics I am writing to you following our compliance check of the quarterly publication Northern Ireland Outpatient Waiting Time Statistics published by the Department of Health (NI), against the Code of Practice for Statistics. In 2020, following a public consultation in 2019, you decided to change the data collection method used to produce these statistics. You have replaced the aggregate manual returns from the […]
Dear Simon Transparency of statistics related to small boat crossings I am writing to you about the public use of statistics on small boat crossings which are not already included as part of an existing publication or ad-hoc release. Migrant English Channel crossings are an area of strong public interest. There have been quotes from Ministers […]
Dear Stephen Thank you for your letter about the delay to the release of Home Office’s Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales publication. I agree with you that it is important for producers of statistics to be transparent and open about delays to reduce any threat to the trustworthiness of the statistics. In this […]
Dear Pete and David Assessment of 2021 Census in England and Wales and 2021 Census in Northern Ireland We have today published our phase 2 assessment reports of the 2021 Census in England and Wales and the 2021 Census in Northern Ireland. These reports draw on our previous preliminary findings from the first phase of the assessment and […]