List of requirements

Based on the findings of this review, we have identified two requirements that ASRB must fulfil for Public Transport Statistics Northern Ireland to become accredited official statistics (called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007).

We expect ASRB to share a progress report with us by mid-July 2025.

Requirement 1: To enable users to more easily access the public transport statistics produced by DfI from its website, the ASRB team should review and publish a plan to improve the access and navigation to these statistics. ASRB should work with other statistical producer teams in DfI and colleagues in NISRA to also agree and set out in this plan how it will improve the ease of access to the range of statistics on the topic of transport in NI and provide a clearer way for users to navigate to related statistical releases. ASRB should involve users in any testing of planned improvements.

Requirement 2: To enhance the value of the public transport statistics, DfI should consider how it could add more relevant context to the statistical report to aid interpretation of the statistics in a broader policy environment, including drawing on the areas identified by this assessment.