The Royal Statistical Society’s Campion Awards are now open. Awarded in partnership the UK Statistics Authority and Civil Service World, the award is for those working in UK government statistics and rewards good practice and innovation in producing and presenting statistics for the public good. Recognising work completed in the previous calendar year, it celebrates the role […]
The UK Statistics Authority has today published its Annual Review of Casework. The report covers April 2019 to March 2020 and also includes a summary of the first quarter of 2020/21. Making public statements about the dissemination and use of statistics has been an important part of the Authority’s work since it began. In this […]
A publicly available record of all the UK Statistics Authority, Office for National Statistics and Office for Statistics Regulation’s select committee submissions, (since 2018), has been made available on the Authority website. The statistical system regularly submits both written and oral evidence to help advise and inform parliamentarians and democratic debate through parliamentary committees and […]
The UK Statistics Authority has unveiled “Statistics for the Public Good” – the new strategy for the UK statistical system following a period of dramatic change during the COVID-19 pandemic. This strategy is accompanied by five-year business plans for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), which spell out […]
The UK Statistics Authority has made some significant changes to our website, based on extensive research from a wide range of users and stakeholders. All changes took effect at 1540 on Monday 13 July 2020. Separating out the Office for Statistics Regulation and The Code of Practice. Historically the UK Statistics Authority website is […]
Richard Dobbs and Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter have have been appointed as non-executive board members of the UK Statistics Authority for a period of three years, commencing today (Wednesday 27 May 2020). Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir David Norgrove, said: “I am delighted to welcome Richard and David as non-executive members of the […]
The UK Statistics Authority and HM Treasury have today announced that they will be extending the time period for the current joint consultation on the future of the Retail Prices Index, in light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. With businesses and individuals focused on mitigating the challenges that this public health and economic emergency has […]
In March 2019, UK Statistics Authority recommended to the Chancellor that the shortcomings of the RPI be addressed by bringing the methods and data sources of CPIH into it. Today The Authority and HM Treasury have launched a joint Consultation on the timing and method of bringing CPIH methods and data sources into the RPI. […]
Party leaders reminded of their duty to use statistics accurately and fairly in the forthcoming election, 5 November 2019.
The UK Statistics Authority has today published its Annual Review of Casework. Making public statements about the dissemination and use of statistics has been an important part of the Authority’s work since it began. In this work, the Authority is guided by its statutory objective to promote and safeguard official statistics. The Office for Statistics […]