Dear Sean Child and Working Tax Credit statistics Thank you for your team’s cooperation in our recent review of HMRC’s Child and Working Tax Credits statistics and its commitment to developing the trustworthiness, quality and value of these statistics. We chose to carry out this compliance check as part of our follow-up monitoring of HMRC’s […]
Dear Axel EU Settlement Scheme application numbers Thank you for your email raising concerns over a tweet by the Home Secretary on EU Settlement Scheme application numbers. We have considered the tweet and agree that it should have referred to number of applications, not number of people. We have contacted the Home Secretary’s Private Office […]
Dear Neil, Use of unpublished data during Parliamentary Questions I am writing to you regarding the use of unpublished data during Parliamentary Questions on 29 January around the DfE’s Skills Toolkit. Thank you for the help your team has provided as we have been looking into this. We welcome the inclusion of statistics on the […]
Dear Richard Use of unpublished statistics in news release On 7 February 2021, a Press Story ‘Response to points raised in Road Haulage Association letter to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’ was published on the Cabinet Office website, responding to claims made in the Observer newspaper. This contains a number of claims based on unpublished data, and […]
Dear Sir/Madam I am making contact due to the extraordinary nature of the average earnings figures which were released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday morning. This saga starts in the following fashion. “Growth in average total pay (including bonuses) among employees for the three months October to December 2020 increased to 4.7%, […]
Dear Roger, Rapid Review of Statistics from the Scottish Victimisation Telephone Survey I am writing to endorse the approach taken in producing statistics from the Scottish Victimisation Telephone Survey (SVTS) and to congratulate your team for their work to ensure that statistics on victimisation continue. Statistics from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Crime and Justice Survey […]
Dear Roger Office for Statistics Regulation’s guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex Today the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published draft guidance for all producers of official statistics to help support them in the collection and reporting of data about sex. This guidance has been put together with a strong focus on […]
Dear Amanda Statistics on Local Authority Registered Providers of social housing stock and rents in England We appreciate the positive and constructive way that you have engaged with us during our review of the compliance of your statistics on local authority registered providers of social housing stock and rents in England against the Code of […]
Dear Simon Care Home vaccine statements Thank you for your email to Sir David Norgrove highlighting your concerns about the availability of vaccine data and linking to your blog: Vaccine alert no numbers. In our view, it is poor practice to announce figures selectively from a dataset when the underlying data are not yet published. […]
Dear Roger Compliance Check of Scottish Prison Population Statistics As you are aware, we recently completed our compliance check of the Scottish Government’s Scottish Prison Population statistics against the Code of Practice for Statistics. This review was requested by the team responsible for the statistics with the aim of preparing for a potential assessment later in 2021. It is positive […]