Dear Prime Minister, You said at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday that there are now more people in employment than before the pandemic began. According to the latest ONS figures, it is wrong to claim that there are now more people in work than before the pandemic began: the increase in the number of people who […]
Dear Secretary of State, Today, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published its review; Improving health and social care statistics: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic resulted in a huge public appetite for data and statistics. We have seen a remarkable response from producers of data and analysis to meet this demand, […]
Dear Sir David, I am writing to raise concerns over comments made in an interview with BBC Breakfast by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak MP, on 6 July 2021. The remark in question is as follows: “The number of people in poverty has fallen as a result of the actions the government has […]
Dear Ms Phillipson, Thank you for your letter of 16 July about statements by Ministers on levels of poverty and income inequality. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) pointed last year in a blog post and more recently in its review of income-based poverty statistics to the complexity of measures of poverty. Figures for absolute […]
Dear Chancellor, Thank you for your letter of 23 October setting out your conclusions on the timing of changes to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) following the joint consultation between the UK Statistics Authority and HM Treasury. I am pleased that you acknowledge the statistical case for our proposal. I understand that you have a […]
Dear Chancellor, Thank you for your letter about the joint consultation by the UK Statistics Authority and HM Treasury on changes to the Retail Prices Index. As you say, we committed to respond to the consultation this autumn and have agreed that we will do so at the time of the Spending Review on 25 […]
Dear David, At the Budget in March, the Government and UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) launched a joint consultation seeking views on whether UKSA’s intended approach to reform the Retail Prices Index (RPI) should be implemented at a date other than 2030, and, if so, when between 2025 and 2030. The consultation closed for responses on […]