Dear Sir Robert, Thank you for enclosing copies of your letters of 23 March to Stephen Kinnock MP and Lord Paddick, regarding statistics that the Prime Minister and I used last December in relation to the asylum backlog. I clarified this matter in my comments in the debate on the Illegal Migration Bill on 27 […]
Dear Sir Robert Re: Use of statistics on the Ultra Low Emissions Zone I am writing to raise concerns about the claims made by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, regarding the levels of compliance of vehicles in outer London with the Ultra Low Emission Zone that is due to expand in August. Sadiq Khan […]
Dear Ms Duncan-Glancy, Thank you for your letter of 24 January regarding Scottish Government figures on the cost of living. I directed the Office for Statistics Regulation to examine your concerns on this issue, and its substantive reply from Director General Ed Humpherson is enclosed. Yours sincerely, Sir Robert Chote Chair of the […]
Dear Mr Kinnock, Thank you for your letter of 19 December. You raised concerns about inconsistent claims made by government Ministers on the size of the backlog of undecided asylum applications. I apologise for the delay in responding, as we were attempting to confirm with Ministers the basis of the figures cited. You gave three […]
Dear Sir Robert, During Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons today, Rishi Sunak asserted that “since the Conservatives came into power, crime is down 50 per cent.” As you will be aware, your predecessor was forced to issue a reprimand in February last year, after a similar claim was made in Parliament by […]
Dear Ed, Office for Statistics Regulation External Scrutiny Programme Thank you for sharing in high-level terms your proposal to enhance the governance procedures for the UK statistical system’s production of economic statistics now that we have left Eurostat, via an External Scrutiny Programme. I am sorry a reply has taken so long. My colleagues on […]
Dear Sir Robert Chote, I am writing to raise concerns over the use of statistics by the Home Secretary related to irregular migration to the UK. Earlier this week, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated in the House of Commons that “there are 100 million people displaced around the world, and likely billions more eager […]
Dear Sir/Madam, I write regarding claims made by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a BBC interview, as referenced in the story linked: PM lies directly about A&E Waiting times in England and Scotland – Talking-up Scotland I am concerned that Mr Sunak selected statistics that are not a like-for-like comparison and in using them he […]
Dear Ms Cooper, Thank you for your letter of 13 January. You had concerns about comments that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care made about official deaths statistics in a radio interview on 11 January. My office has spoken to the Secretary of State’s office, which clarified that it was not his […]
Dear Sir Robert, I am writing to raise concerns about the dismissal of official excess death statistics by the Secretary of State for Health and Social care, the Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP. The statistics, produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), show that the UK saw 50,000 excess deaths in 2022, making it […]