Dear Neil CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) ATTENDANCE IN EDUCATION AND EARLY YEARS SETTINGS I am writing to endorse the approach taken by DfE in the recent publication of data on attendance in education and early years settings during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. I would like to congratulate everyone involved for their work to produce these timely and valuable statistics […]
Dear Ed, RE: Publication of Daily COVID-19 related statistics via a Public facing Dashboard I am writing to you to set out our proposed plans for the orderly release of COVID19 statistics by the Department of Health Northern Ireland into the public domain. It would be my intention to release daily information in the form […]
Dear Mr Pengelly I am writing to you following our useful conversation earlier today about the provision of trustworthy and complete statistical information relating to COVID-19 in Northern Ireland. The background is that over the past two weeks there have been a number of changes to the reporting of these figures for Northern Ireland. Responsibility […]
Dear Jim Strengthening the quality of HMRC’s official statistics Today we publish the findings of our review of the quality of HMRC’s official statistics. HMRC invited us to carry out this review after identifying a significant error in its Corporation Tax receipt statistics. The aim of the review was to provide an independent assessment of […]
Dear Ruth Strengthening the quality of HMRC’s official statistics Today we publish the findings of our review of the principles and processes underpinning the quality of HMRC’s official statistics. We welcome HMRC inviting OSR to carry out this review after HMRC identified a significant error in its Corporation Tax receipt statistics, which affected the period […]
Dear Glyn Provision in local authority settings during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic I am writing to endorse the new official statistics Welsh Government is about to publish. I would like congratulate everyone involved for their work to produce these timely and valuable statistics in challenging circumstances. As discussed, I am also happy to confirm the […]
Dear Scott, Thank you for your letter today. 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 2.00pm each Wednesday for the PHS’s weekly COVID-19 report, starting on Wednesday 29 April. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic I welcome […]
Dear Ed Publication of COVID-19 related statistics by Public Health Scotland Thank you for your letter of 1st April 2020 welcoming the launch of Public Health Scotland. As you indicated, we have launched in unprecedented times and Public Health Scotland is continuing the work being led by Health Protection Scotland, ISD Scotland and NHS Health […]
Dear Glyn, As agreed, I am responding on behalf of Sir David Norgrove following the letter he received from Kirsty Williams AC/AM regarding use of estimates from NASUWT of the per pupil funding gap between England and Wales in debate within the Welsh Assembly. We are aware that since 2012 the Welsh Government has not […]
Dear Ed, You will be aware of the recent publicity surrounding deaths due to COVID-19 and whether the published daily figures for the UK, and Northern Ireland, cover just deaths in hospital or also include deaths in care homes. You will also be aware that ONS published deaths split by location for the week ending […]