Dear Dame Meg Hillier, I write in response to the Public Accounts Committee’s call for evidence for their inquiry into Homes for Ukraine. 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 […]
Dear Dame Meg, I wanted to write in my role as Head of the Government Analysis Function regarding your Committee’s report and the subsequent Government response on Use of evaluation and modelling in government. For recommendation 5b, we gave a target implementation date of summer 2022. This was in error: it should have said summer […]
On Wednesday 9 March 2022 Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry on use of evaluation and financial modelling. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Ms Hillier, I write to offer the Office for National Statistics (ONS) response to the Public Accounts Committee’s report on ‘The effectiveness of Official Development Assistance expenditure’. The Committee made one recommendation to the ONS: “All ODA spending departments should report back to us in 6 months’ time on the extent to which they […]
Dear Meg, I write in response to the Public Accounts Committee’s call for evidence for the inquiry considering Digital Transformation in the NHS. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) is the independent regulatory arm of the UK Statistics Authority. We provide independent regulation of all official statistics produced in the UK, including those in Devolved […]