Dear Mr Perkins, Please accept my congratulations on your election as Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee. Further to our update to the previous Committee in November 2023, I am writing to provide a further update on recent and upcoming Office for National Statistics (ONS) environmental work. This includes work on the UK natural capital […]
Dear Mr Dunne, I am writing to you and the Committee to provide an update on recent and upcoming Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) environmental work. This includes work on the UK natural capital accounts, potentially useful background for the Committee’s “role of natural capital in the green economy” inquiry, as well as measuring green […]
Dear Mr Dunne, Thank you for your letter of 28 June, of which you noted the interest of the Committee in our evaluation of the pilot publication we released on 12 May, which brought together climate change-related statistics with the preliminary quarterly estimate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). I also noted in my letter of […]
Dear Mr Dunne, Thank you for your letter of 5 April 2022, following oral evidence from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the inquiry, Aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. We welcome both the Committee’s recognition of our work to date on wellbeing, the environmental accounts, and the cross-government UK climate change […]
On Wednesday 2 March 2022 Liz McKeown, Director for Public Policy Analysis at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr. Dunne, I write in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s request for evidence for its inquiry into aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. As the Committee will be aware, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s National Statistical Institute and largest producer of official statistics. We aim to provide […]
Dear Mr Dunne, I write in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s request for evidence for its inquiry into Ecosystems and biodiversity, specifically addressing the Committees questions regarding the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) work towards incorporating the Natural Capital Accounts and the Environmental Accounts into the wider national accounts. The ONS has been working […]
Dear Ms Creagh, I am writing to offer the Office for National Statistics (ONS) response to the Environmental Audit Committee report on the ‘Sustainable Development Goals in the UK follow up: Hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity in the UK’. The Committee made two recommendations to ONS. Firstly: “ONS should continue to develop its metrics to […]
Dear Ms Creagh, While providing evidence at the Environmental Audit Committee on 23 October on Sustainable Development Goals, I promised to provide further information on a number of areas. These are set out below. UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) statistics SDG indicator 2.1.2 requires data on both ‘moderate’ and ‘severe’ food insecurity. In September […]
On 21 September 2018, Iain Bell, Deputy National Statistician, gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee’s call for evidence to its follow-up inquiry on the Sustainable Development Goals in the UK. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament’s website. Related Links: Iain Bell’s written evidence (September 2018) Iain Bell’s follow up written […]