Dear Mr Cox, Thank you for your letter of 12 November about the Authority’s proposals on the future of the Retail Prices Index (RPI). We have been clear for a long time that RPI is not a good measure of inflation and its use should be discouraged. The proposals we put to the Chancellor are […]
Dear Ms Williams, Thank you for your letter of 6 December about comparisons by the Welsh Conservatives of school funding in England and Wales. I am pleased to hear that your officials are in discussions with NASUWT, the source of the estimates in question. The different funding arrangements in the two countries mean there is […]
Letter from Margaret Greenwood MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority. 24 January 2020. Related Links: Letter from Sir David Norgrove to Margaret Greenwood MP (February 2020)
Dear Sir David I am writing to you concerning the continued use of outdated and misleading statistics by the Welsh Conservatives concerning expenditure on schools in Wales and a perceived gap in school funding between England and Wales. This includes occasional references to the last official statistics produced on this matter, dated back to 2010-11 […]
Sir David Norgrove writes to Jeremy Corbyn on use of violent crime statistics, 4 December 2019.
Letter from Ranil Jayawardena MP to Sir David Norgrove regarding concerns about claims made by the National Education Union. Related Links: Sir David Norgrove to Ranil Jayawardena MP (October 2019) OSR statement on school funding announcements (October 2019)
Dear Sir David We are concerned the Government is still making inaccurate statements about education funding. On 30th August, the Department for Education made a major policy announcement about school funding, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-boosts-schools-with-14-billion-package. The press release claims that: “As part of this, every secondary school will receive a minimum of £5,000 per pupil next year, with […]
Dear Finance Secretary, The Scottish Government recently asked the UK Statistics Authority to consider a tweet and press article by the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury on the subject of income tax reconciliations for Scotland,(1) in which Ms Truss described a “£941m shortfall in Scottish tax revenues due to lower growth in Scotland.”. You […]