Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

  1. Office for National Statistics follow-up written evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on data transparency and accountability: COVID-19

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

      Dear Mr Wragg, While providing evidence to the Committee on 22 September for the inquiry Data Accountability and Transparency: COVID-19, I promised to provide further information on sex differences in antibodies. On Monday we published our latest analysis on antibodies from the COVID-19 Infection Survey. Blood samples taken between 26 April and 02 September […]

  2. Office for National Statistics and Office for Statistics Regulation oral evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on data transparency and accountability: COVID-19

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics and Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    On 22 September 2020 Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on data transparency and accountability: COVID-19. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament Website.

  3. UK Statistics Authority correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Authority’s new strategy

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    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear William, Thank you so much for your help with the launch of our new strategy ‘Statistics for the Public Good’. I wanted to now write to your formally to let you and your Committee know that we have published it today. Statistics and data have never been as necessary for the public good as […]

  4. UK Statistics Authority correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding progress against recommendations (Governance of Statistics report)

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    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear William, I was glad we had the chance to speak last month. I said then that I would write and set out the further actions the UK Statistics Authority has taken in response to the Committee’s 2019 Governance of Statistics report. Our full response to the report made a number of commitments and this […]

  5. Office for Statistics Regulation correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the use of management information

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear Mr Wragg, Thank you for your letter of 18 May 2020, regarding the use of unpublished data in public by the Government. I will of course raise any instances in future with you and the Committee, and am grateful for your support of the work of the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). In relation […]

  6. Office for National Statistics and Office for Statistics Regulation oral evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry regarding COVID-19 data

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics and Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    On Wednesday 13 May 2020 Professor Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician; Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, UK Statistics Authority gave oral evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry regarding COVID-19 data. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament’s website. Related Links: Professor Ian Diamond to William Wragg […]

  7. Office for Statistics Regulation correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding cases and deaths from COVID-19

    Sent from: Office for Statistics Regulation

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear Mr Wragg, As Director General for Regulation at the UK Statistics Authority and Head of the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), I write in response to your letter of 14 April to the National Statistician, covering the regulatory perspective on COVID-19 statistics and data. This letter summarises OSR’s review of data and statistics on […]

  8. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding cases and deaths from COVID-19

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear Mr Wragg, Thank you for your letter of 14 April regarding both Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) data on cases of, and deaths from, COVID-19, and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality data. I wanted to note, too, that as the UK’s National Statistician and Head of the Government Statistical Service, […]

  9. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding the legislative timetable for the census

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    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear Mr Wragg, Thank you for your letter of 4 March regarding the timetable for planning and legislation for the 2021 Census. I would also like to offer my congratulations on your appointment as Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. I look forward to meeting you to discuss the subject of your […]

  10. UK Statistics Authority written evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on governance of statistics inquiry

    Sent from: UK Statistics Authority

    Sent to: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee

    Dear Bernard, I write to offer the UK Statistics Authority response to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee report on ‘Governance of official statistics: redefining the dual role of the UK Statistics Authority; and re-evaluating the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.’ The Authority thanks the Committee for this report and its recommendations. The […]