The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is accepting entries for our 2025 Campion Award for Excellence in Official Statistics, presented in partnership with the UK Statistics Authority and Civil Service World. The award celebrates good practice in UK official statistics, recognising outstanding innovations, developments and challenges faced by government statisticians in providing both ‘business as usual’ outputs […]
The closing date for applications is 26th February 2025 at 23:55pm About the Advisory Panel on Migration Statistics Understanding International migration is fundamental to our understanding of the UK economy and society. It changes the size and shape of our population, contributes to the labour market and impacts the demands on public services. It is […]
Peter Barron, Professor Mairi Spowage and Dr Sarah Walsh have newly joined the Board of the UK Statistics Authority as non-executive directors (NEDs). Their expertise in communications, economic statistics, audit and risk will provide valuable support and challenge as the Authority sets out a new strategy in 2025, and seeks to implement its response to […]
The closing date for applications is 13 January 2025. We are looking to appoint a Chair to the UK Statistics Authority’s Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Stakeholder). If successful in your application, you will provide independent advice to the National Statistician on the uses and applications of consumer price indices, to ensure that these statistics […]
Sir Robert Chote, Chair, UK Statistics Authority, and Dr Sarah Cumbers, Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society The UK Statistics Authority and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) are delighted to be convening the first ever UK Statistics Assembly in London on Wednesday 22 January 2025. This will be an opportunity for users and […]
Thank you and good morning everyone. On behalf of the UK Statistics Authority, it is a great pleasure to welcome you all to London for what I am sure are going to be a fascinating few days. As well as listening to – and engaging with – the excellent range of presenters and panellists on […]
The Research Accreditation Panel (RAP) provides oversight of the framework that is used to accredit research projects, researchers and processing environments under the Digital Economy Act 2017 (DEA) and the Approved Researcher gateway in the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007 (SRSA). On Friday 28 June 2024, the UK Statistics Authority and the RAP hosted […]
The UK Statistics Authority has today published its response to the Independent Review conducted earlier this year by Professor Denise Lievesley, as part of the Cabinet Office Public Bodies Review programme. It presents a thorough and constructive evaluation of our strengths and areas for improvement. We are grateful to Professor Lievesley and her team for […]
The Royal Statistical Society has announced the recipients of the 2024 Campion Award for Excellence in Official Statistics, awarded in partnership with the UK Statistics Authority and Civil Service World. The award celebrates good practice in UK official statistics, recognising outstanding innovations and developments and challenges faced by government statisticians in providing both “business as usual” outputs and […]
Today, Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has written to leaders of political parties to ask that their parties and candidates use statistics appropriately and transparently. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), the regulatory arm of the Authority, has been campaigning to encourage ‘intelligent transparency’, and make sure that statistical claims and […]
