Dear Lord Wood, Thank you for inviting me to give evidence for the Committee’s inquiry on Preparing for an Ageing Society. During that session on 1 April, I promised to follow-up with the Committee on several topics, as our discussion ranged from population projections to fertility rates and migration. I have annexed further information on, […]
On Tuesday 1 April, Mary Gregory, Director for Population Statistics, gave oral evidence to the Lords’ Economic Affairs Committee for their inquiry, ‘Preparing for an Ageing Society’. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Lord Bridges, Firstly, David and I wanted to thank you for the opportunity to discuss labour market statistics with the Committee on 23 April. During the session we promised to follow-up on several areas of interest to the Committee. How household composition has changed since before COVID-19 During our discussion, we said that we […]
Dear Lord Bridges, When giving evidence to you and your Committee on 18 April, Grant and I promised to follow-up on a number of points with various members of the Committee. Firstly, we promised to send the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and OECD joint study, International comparisons of the measurement of non-market output during […]
On Tuesday 18 April, Mike Keoghan, Deputy National Statistician for Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics and Grant Fitzner, Chief Economist and Director for Macroeconomic and Environment Statistics and Analysis at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Lords Economic Affairs Committee for a one-off session on growth and productivity: statistical growth. A transcript […]
Dear Lord Bridges, I write following the Economic Affairs Committee’s report, ‘Where have all the workers gone?’, particularly the conclusion that “more timely high-quality information on the wealth holdings of early retirees, such as that which will ultimately be available through the Wealth Assets Survey or the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, would be very […]
Dear Lord Bridges, Thank you for inviting David Freeman and I to give evidence for the Committee’s inquiry on UK Labour Supply. During that session on 6 September, we promised to follow-up with the Committee on several topics. Over-50s Lifestyle Survey The latest iteration of the Over-50s Lifestyle Survey was discussed at many points during […]
On Tuesday 6 September, Mike Keoghan, Deputy National Statistician for Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics, Office for National Statistics, and David Freeman, Head of Labour Market and Households, Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Economic Affairs Committee for its inquiry, ‘the UK labour supply’. A transcript of which has been published on the UK […]
Dear Lord Forsyth, I write in response to the Economic Affairs Committee’s call for evidence for its inquiry, Employment and coronavirus (COVID-19). 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 a firm evidence base for […]
Dear Lord Forsyth, Following the Committee’s recent report on Measuring Inflation, I write with the UK Statistics Authority’s response to your recommendations. As your report made clear, the question faced by the Authority in 2012 was whether to make substantive changes to the construction of the Retail Prices Index (RPI). The decision made by the […]