Further information

Our vision and our OSR Strategic Business Plan 2020 to 2025 set the context for what we aimed to achieve in 2021/22

Our focus for the year was set out in our OSR Annual Business Plan 2021/22. Our OSR Annual Business Plan 2022/23 provides more information about what we want to achieve in the coming year.

The legislation which established the UK Statistics Authority requires strict separation of the functions of production and regulation, where those involved in the production of statistics are not involved in the assessment of statistics against the Code.

Our work is overseen by the Authority’s Regulation Committee. The Committee is chaired by Anne Trefethen, a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority Board. Other members are also non-executive members of that Board, together with the Director General for Regulation. No producers of statistics, including ONS executives, are members of the Committee.

The Regulation Committee reviews and approves our strategy, annual business plan, and budget, and approves all key regulatory decisions on assessment against the Code of Practice for Statistics.

For more information about our organisation: what we do and why; how we work and the tools we use; and our broad ambitions for future development, please refer to our published vision statement.