Dear Iain COVID-19 infection survey publication time Following conversations with your team, I am happy to confirm the one-off exemption from your usual publication time for COVID-19 Infection Survey statistics of noon on a Friday, to 10:30am on Thursday 26 November. I very much welcome your commitment to review your publication schedule to enable you to respond […]
Dear Rob Mergers and Acquisitions Statistics Thank you for your commitment to developing the public value of ONS’s Mergers and Acquisitions statistics and your team’s participation in our recent review of them. This letter confirms our findings and the continued designation of these statistics as National Statistics. We chose to review these statistics given their […]
Dear Mike Consumer Prices Index Including Owner-Occupiers’ Housing Costs (CPIH) Thank you for the positive engagement of yourself and colleagues during our follow-up review of ONS’s development of CPIH – Consumer Prices Index including Owner-Occupiers’ Housing Costs (OOH). This review follows our letter from July 2017, when the UK Statistics Authority re-designated CPIH as National […]
Dear Siobhan Department for Communities’ Benefits Statistics Summary for Northern Ireland I am writing to you following our review of the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Benefits Statistics Summary for Northern Ireland against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The statistics have been considered as part of a wider review of benefit statistics, along with our […]
Dear Steve Assessment of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Benefit Statistics We have today published the assessment report on these statistics. I am grateful for the positive engagement of your team throughout the assessment process. The DWP benefit statistics publication brings together key statistics on DWP administered benefits and acts as a compendium of benefit statistics, where the frequency and reference […]
Dear Sean Working-age benefit combination statistics I am writing to you following our assessment of benefit statistics produced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) against the Code of Practice for Statistics. Our assessment report highlights strong user interest in the experimental working-age benefit combination statistics, which illustrate possible and the most common combinations […]
Dear Steve, Confirmation of National Statistics Designation for National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals Entering the UK Statistics In January 2017 the Office for Statistics Regulation undertook an assessment of Statistics on National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals produced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). We assessed the statistics reported […]
Dear Ed, Guidance on the sex question in the forthcoming Census for Scotland Thank you for your letter dated 4 October 2020 and in particular your positive comments on the work National Records of Scotland is doing to deliver the census. Stakeholder engagement is vitally important to National Records of Scotland and I am pleased […]
Dear Ed, Transparency of data and information related to COVID-19 Thank you for your letter dated 5 November 2020. I agree that timely publication of data and supporting documentation is of great importance, and undoubtedly helps citizens understand the decisions Ministers have made. As you acknowledge in your letter, openness and transparency of advice are […]
Dear Siobhan Transparency of data related to COVID-19 I am writing to draw your attention to the statement and blog published today by the Office for Statistics Regulation on communicating data during the pandemic and to ask you to raise awareness of the principles in the statement in relevant Departments in Northern Ireland. Our aim […]