Dear Ms Baillie, Thank you for your letter of 27 September regarding your concerns over the use of Test and Protect statistics by Scottish Government. Scottish Government should be clearer about the limitations in comparing figures for Scotland (published by Public Health Scotland) with the World Health Organization target for contact tracing. Ed […]
Dear Minister, 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. It has also drawn attention to existing challenges for health and social care statistics. I am sure you […]
Dear Colleagues, Today, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published its review; Improving health and social care statistics: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. I am writing to senior officials in bodies responsible for health and social care statistics in England to ask for your support in implementing the recommendations from this review. The […]
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 Minister, 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, in many […]
Dear Cabinet Secretary, 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, in […]
Dear Sir David, On 22 June last year, you kindly replied to a complaint from me about the Home Office’s refusal to answer straightforward questions about the numbers of people being granted Leave to Remain with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). As your letter pointed out, NRPF “has been a significant focus of attention […]
Dear Mr Timms, Thank you for your letter of 21 July about the publication of statistics on people being granted Leave to Remain with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). It is helpful that the Home Office is now publishing quarterly data on numbers applying for a change to the NRPF condition and whether or […]
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 […]