Treasury Committee

  1. UK Statistics Authority written evidence to the Treasury Committee inquiry into Student Loans

    Sent from: UK Statistics Authority

    Sent to: Treasury Committee

    Dear Dame Meg,  I write in response to the call for evidence on student loans and taxation of graduates; specifically, whether the interest on a student loan should be fixed to the Retail Prices Index (RPI), Consumer Prices Index (CPI), or another measure.  It is a decision for Government how student loan interest should be set, including whether and how it should be linked to inflation. The Office for […]

  2. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Treasury Committee on economic statistics

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Dame Meg Hillier, The previous National Statistician made a commitment to your Committee to provide regularupdates on labour market statistics and other economic statistics as necessary. I am writing in my capacity as Acting National Statistician to continue this commitment and enclose the latest update. Labour market statistics On 21 July, the Office for […]

  3. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Treasury Committee on economic statistics

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Dame Meg Hillier, Thank you for your letter of 26 March. Please find in the enclosed annex answers to your questions relating to Office for National Statistics (ONS) economic publications. As I committed in my letter to the Committee on 3 March, I also enclose an update on our plans for the Transformed Labour […]

  4. Office for National Statistics follow-up written evidence to the Treasury Committee on economic statistics

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Dame Meg Hillier, Thank you for your letter of 14 February, following up on our evidence session with your Committee on 4 February. As I mentioned during the session, we are grateful for your interest in this important area of work. In response to the request in your letter, I can commit to providing […]

  5. Office for National Statistics oral evidence to the Treasury Committee on economic statistics

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    On Tuesday 4 February, Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician, Mary Gregory, Director for Population Statistics and Richard Heys, Deputy Director for Productivity, Investment and Research at the Office for National Statistics gave evidence to the Treasury Committee for their session on economic statistics. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.

  6. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Treasury Committee on labour market statistics

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Dame Meg, As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your letter of 21 November regarding the Labour Force Survey. The Office for National Statistics (ONS), as the UK’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) and largest producer of official statistics, delivers independent and relevant statistics and analysis, continuously […]

  7. UK Statistics Authority correspondence to the Treasury Select Committee on revisions within Blue Book 2023

    Sent from: UK Statistics Authority

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Ms Baldwin, Thank you for your letter of 14 September 2023 regarding revisions within Blue Book 2023. To take your four points in turn: An overview of the main drivers of these revisions, and whether there were particular circumstances (including those arising from the pandemic) in 2020 and 2021 that made early estimates of […]

  8. Office for National Statistics correspondence to the Treasury Select Committee on insurance industry inflation

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Ms Baldwin, Thank you for your letter of 8 June 2023 regarding insurance industry inflation. To take your questions in turn: How the ONS calculates insurance inflation for the purposes of the Consumer Price Index, and whether differences in methodology account for the differences between ONS and ABI measures of inflation. Our data sources […]

  9. Office for National Statistics follow-up written evidence to the Treasury Committee’s inquiry on an Equal Recovery

    Sent from: Office for National Statistics

    Sent to: Treasury Select Committee

    Dear Mr Stride, Thank you for inviting me to give evidence to your Committee on 15 September for the inquiry ‘An Equal Recovery’. During that evidence session, I promised to follow up on several points, and to answer some questions that members did not have time to ask. Impact of the pandemic on lower-paid workers […]