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Consultation on the Retail Prices Index
10 January 2013 — Statement
The Board of the UK Statistics Authority has accepted the recommendations of the National Statistician in respect of price indices following the recent public consultation on this. In 2010, the…
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Standards for Statistical Reports
26 November 2012 — Statement
This statement sets out the Statistics Authority’s expectations in relation to the drafting of statistical reports(1) . It draws on the then Statistics Commission’s 2008 report Releasing Official Statistics: A…
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Numbers and public policy
11 November 2012 — Event
The Authority’s Chair, Andrew Dilnot, gave this year’s Institute for Fiscal Studies annual lecture, Numbers and public policy: the power of official statistics and statistical communication in public policy-making,…
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Appointments to the Board of the UK Statistics Authority
2 July 2012 — Announcement, Appointments
The UK Statistics Authority warmly welcomes the appointment of Professor Sir Adrian Smith FRS and Professor David Rhind CBE FRS FBA as Deputy Chairs of the UK Statistics Authority, and…
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Andrew Dilnot takes up office as Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
2 April 2012 — Appointments, Statement
Andrew Dilnot CBE today takes up office as Chair of the UK Statistics Authority in succession to Sir Michael Scholar KCB whose term of office came to an end on…
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Professor Sir Roger Jowell CBE (1942 – 2011)
31 December 2011 — Statement
It was with great sadness that the Authority Board and its staff learned of the death, on 26 December 2011, of Professor Sir Roger Jowell, CBE, the UK Statistics Authority’s…
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Review of an error in the published estimates of Output in Construction
30 September 2011 — Statement
This Statement follows the Authority’s earlier Press Release of 16 August in which we announced an independent inquiry following an error in the Statistical Bulletin on Output in Construction published by…
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Johnian Lecture by Sir Michael Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge
10 September 2011 — Event
It is a great honour for me to be invited to give the Johnian lecture, and to do so during the celebrations of the College’s 500th year. And it is…
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Release of Output in Construction estimates by the Office for National Statistics
16 August 2011 — Press release
The UK Statistics Authority has noted with concern the publication and subsequent correction of miscalculated estimates of Output in Construction by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 12 August…
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Compliance with Standards for Statistical Releases
6 July 2011 — Statement
This Statement sets out details of additional information about statistical releases that the Statistics Authority will include in Assessment Reports. This additional information will be based on the Authority’s published…