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Code of Practice breach – pre-release access
28 January 2009 — Statement
Cancer survival, England, patients diagnosed 2000-2004 and followed up to 2005: one-year and five-year survival for 21 common cancers, by sex and age (Office for National Statistics) The Office for…
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Code of Practice breach – pre-release access UK emissions of Air Pollutants 2007 (Defra)
22 January 2009 — Statement
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has reported to the UK Statistics Authority a breach of the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 (and therefore the…
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Statistics Authority publishes the Code of Practice for Official Statistics
6 January 2009 — Press release
The UK Statistics Authority today publishes the new Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The Authority has statutory responsibility under the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 to prepare and…
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Statement by Sir Michael Scholar
13 December 2008 — Press release
Further to correspondence between Sir Michael Scholar, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, and Jeremy Heywood, Permanent Secretary at 10 Downing Street on 12 December. Sir Michael Scholar issued a…
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Appointment of Deputy Chair (Statistical System) Professor Sir Roger Jowell
11 November 2008 — Announcement, Appointments
The UK Statistics Authority warmly welcomes the appointment of Professor Sir Roger Jowell as Deputy Chair (Statistical System) and non-executive member of the UK Statistics Authority with effect from 11…
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Initial Programme of Assessments 2008-09
10 November 2008 — Press release
Under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the UK Statistics Authority has a statutory responsibility to assess whether the Code of Practice has been complied with…
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Pre-release access to official statistics
21 October 2008 — Press release
The draft Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 was laid before Parliament on 21 July 2008 and will be considered by Parliament over the coming weeks with a view to…
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Reports from the Authority’s Monitoring and Assessment Team
10 October 2008 — Press release
Update No. 1 Additional information further to the Announcement made on 4 July 2008 Authority Monitoring Reports The Authority has a statutory function under section 8 of the Statistics and…
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Government response to Treasury Select Committee report Counting the Population
2 October 2008 — Press release
The Government’s response to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee’s report Counting the Population was published recently. TheUK Statistics Authority’s response is now available.
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Speech by Sir Michael Scholar to the Annual Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, University of Nottingham, 4 September 2008
29 September 2008 — Event
Introduction I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to speak to you today at this most important conference in the statistical calendar. I am not, as you know,…