Welsh Government

  1. Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Stephanie Howarth: Compliance review of maternity and births statistics and breastfeeding statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie, We recently completed a compliance review of Welsh Government’s Maternity and births statistics and Breastfeeding statistics against the standards of the Code of Practice for Statistics. Our review considered whether the Welsh Government can continue to publish the statistics as accredited official statistics.  Based on the findings of the review, it is our […]

  2. Stephanie Howarth to Ed Humpherson: Request to suspend accreditation

    Sent from: Welsh Government

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed,  I wrote to you in October to request a temporary suspension of the accredited official statistics status for a number of Welsh Government’s statistical outputs derived from ONS’s Annual Population Survey (APS).  This was in response to the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force […]

  3. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: request to suspend accreditation

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie  Suspension of the accredited official statistics status for the estimates for Wales produced from the Annual Population Survey   Thank you for your letter setting out your most recent decision following the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), on which the Annual Population […]

  4. Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Stephanie Howarth: Statistics on Council Tax in Wales

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie  We recently completed a compliance check of council tax statistics produced by the Welsh Government against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We completed this review as part of a series of compliance checks on council tax statistics produced in Great Britain (GB). The scope of this review included the annual dwellings, levels and […]

  5. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Suspension of accredited official statistics status for Wales estimates produced from the Annual Population Survey

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie  Suspension of the accredited official statistics status for the estimates for Wales produced from the Annual Population Survey Thank you for your letter setting out your actions following the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), on which the Annual Population Survey (APS) […]

  6. Stephanie Howarth to Ed Humpherson: Request to suspend APS accreditation

    Sent from: Welsh Government

    Sent to: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Dear Ed,   In light of the suspension of the accredited official statistics status for labour market statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in February 2024, we have reviewed compliance with the Code of Practice for the Wales statistics derived from ONS’s Annual Population Survey (APS).  Due to the larger achieved sample on the APS […]

  7. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Suspension of accredited official statistics status from Labour Force Survey-based estimates

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie  Suspension of accredited official statistics status from Labour Force Survey-based estimates  I write to acknowledge your actions taken in response to ONS’s decision to suspend the accredited official statistics status (called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007) from its LFS-based estimates, as these estimates are also used within your […]

  8. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Regulatory guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex and gender identity in official statistics

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie Regulatory guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex and gender identity in official statistics Today we published new guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex and gender identity in official statistics. This guidance updates and supersedes the OSR previous draft guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex in official statistics, […]

  9. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Welsh Government, 20 mph speed limit

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie, Improving transparency of Welsh Government’s 20-mph speed limit data I am writing today to outline my concerns with the transparency of sources supporting claims on the implementation of the Welsh Government’s 20 mph speed limit, particularly in a promotional leaflet sent to households in Wales. While the claims in the promotional material cited […]

  10. Ed Humpherson to Stephanie Howarth: Emergency Department Statistics for Wales

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Welsh Government

    Dear Stephanie  Emergency Department Statistics for Wales  Thank you for outlining the steps that you have taken to assure the quality of emergency department statistics in the light of queries raised in the media this week.   I welcome these steps and particularly your confirmation that the data that Local Health Boards submit to Digital Health […]