Office for Statistics Regulation

  1. Sandra Tudor, MHCLG to Ed Humpherson: Temporary suspension of National Statistics designation for Local authority revenue expenditure and financing

    Sent from: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF NATIONAL STATISTICS DESIGNATION FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY REVENUE EXPENDITURE AND FINANCING, ENGLAND: 2020 TO 2021 BUDGET I am writing to ask you to consider a temporary suspension of the National Statistics badging for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s statistics on Local authority revenue expenditure and financing, England: 2020 […]

  2. Ed Humpherson to Glyn Jones: Monthly Indicators from the National Survey for Wales

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Glyn Monthly Indicators from the National Survey for Wales I am writing to endorse the approach you have taken to develop the National Survey Wales given the current COVID-19 situation. The primary purpose of the survey is to provide views of adults in Wales on a wide range of issues affecting them, which is key […]

  3. Ed Humpherson to Daniel Shaw: Parliamentary question response

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Home Office

    Dear Daniel I am writing regarding issues that have come to my attention linked to a parliamentary question response asking for information on how many people were given leave to remain in the UK subject to the no recourse to public funds condition in 2019. I thank you for engaging with my team on these […]

  4. Ed Humpherson to Neil McIvor: Temporary exemption from Code for DfE attendance statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Education

    Dear Neil, Following conversations with your team, I am happy to confirm the exemption from the Code of Practice for Statistics’ standard publication time of 9.30am to permit a later release time of noon each Tuesday for attendance in education and early years settings during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic statistics. We welcome your decision to […]

  5. Ed Humpherson to Ken Roy: User engagement in the Defra Group

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Dear Ken User engagement in the Defra Group Today we published the findings of our review of user engagement in the Defra Group[1]. The aims of the review were to develop a better understanding of the range of approaches to user engagement currently adopted within the Defra Group, and to identify the key features of […]

  6. Mark Pont to Tony O’Connor: Finance and Economic series: Trade, Industry and Contracts Statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Ministry of Defence

    Dear Tony FINANCE AND ECONOMICS SERIES: TRADE, INDUSTRY AND CONTRACTS STATISTICS As you are aware, we recently completed our short review of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics of the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Trade, industry and contracts statistics. I am pleased to confirm that these statistics should continue to be designated as […]

  7. Ed Humpherson to Rose O’Neill: Rapid review of interim indicators from the People and Nature Survey

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Natural England

    Dear Rose INTERIM INDICATORS FROM THE PEOPLE AND NATURE SURVEY FOR ENGLAND I am writing to endorse the approach taken to develop interim indicators from the People and Nature Survey. The survey, which collects vital information on people’s engagement with the natural environment in England, was always scheduled to go live in April 2020, but […]

  8. Response from Jeremy Pocklington to Ed Humpherson

    Sent from: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed, RE: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION ON ROUGH SLEEPERS Thank you for your letter of 2 June 2020 where you make reference to the use of management information by MHCLG ministers and officials. I can confirm that the management information that supports the statement that nearly 15,000 people have been provided emergency accommodation by local authorities […]

  9. Response from Siobhan Carey to Ed Humpherson: Devolved public finance statistics-Northern Ireland

    Sent from: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    OSR Review of the Public Value of Devolved Public Finance statistics Dear Ed Thank you for your correspondence regarding the constructive review that the OSR recently completed regarding the “Public Value of Devolved Public Finance statistics”. I apologise that a range of other competing priorities have prevented me from responding until now. As you may […]

  10. Ed Humpherson to Jeremy Pocklington: Management Information on Rough Sleepers

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    Dear Mr Pocklington MANAGEMENT INFORMATION ON ROUGH SLEEPERS In a statement on 18 May we set out our expectation that when management information is used publicly by ministers or officials to inform Parliament, the media and the public, it should be available to all in an accessible form, with appropriate explanations of context and sources. We have seen […]