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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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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,…

• Speech by Sir Michael Scholar at the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency conference, Limavaddy

  29 September 2008 — Event —

  Thank you, Norman. And thank you so much for inviting me to this year’s Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency conference. It is clear to me from what I have…

• Speech by Sir Michael Scholar to the Annual Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, University of Nottingham, 4 September 2008

  4 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,…

• Talk by the Head of Assessment, Richard Alldritt, at the Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 3 September 2008

  3 September 2008 — Event —

  The UK Statistics Authority has issued for consultation a draft code of practice for official statistics. It is quite hard to get people to actually read it word by word.…