Dear Simon, Following the recent appearances before your Committee on 1 and 8 July, we subsequently received requests for further information. To that end, I hope this letter is helpful. Deputy Chair Post When did the Board agree to recommend Penny Young for appointment as Deputy Chair? Has it (and if so when) made a […]
On Tuesday 8 July, Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Emma Rourke, Acting National Statistician and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on the work of the UK Statistics Authority. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr Hoare, During the evidence session with your Committee on 1 July, I committed to follow-up in writing with further detail. I mentioned action we had taken on culture prior to Sir Robert Devereux’s review at corporate level. This included an organisational review of psychological safety across the Senior Civil Service (SCS) cadre of […]
On Tuesday 1 July, Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Emma Rourke, Acting National Statistician and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on the work of the UK Statistics Authority. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Simon I am writing in response to the call for evidence for the Committee’s inquiry into the work of the UK Statistics Authority. We welcome our regular appearances before the Committee, not just as a channel of formal accountability to Parliament, but also as an important source of support, challenge and advice in ensuring […]
Dear Mr Hoare, Now that the Committee has been reconstituted, I write to provide a response from the UK Statistics Authority to your predecessors’ report on ‘Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base’, published shortly before the General Election was called. On behalf of the Authority, I would like to express my thanks to them and their […]
Dear Mr Wragg, Following the submission of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) written evidence to the Committee’s Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base inquiry on 31st August 2023, I then gave oral evidence to the Committee on 5th September 2023. One of the topics that I am aware the Committee has been interested in, during […]
Dear Mr Wragg, Thank you very much for the opportunity to give evidence to your Committee as part of the Transforming the UK Evidence Base inquiry on 6 February. I enjoyed the session and I hope that you found my evidence useful. I am writing to provide some supplementary evidence related to comparability of statistics […]
On Tuesday 6 February, Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation at the Office for Statistics Regulation, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee for their inquiry on Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr Wragg, Following the submission of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) written evidence to the Committee’s Transforming the UK’s Evidence Base on 31st August 2023, I then gave evidence to the Committee on 5th September 2023. I am now able to provide some supplementary evidence, as requested, on several topics of interest. The […]