Dear Ms Baldwin, Thank you for your letter of 8 June 2023 regarding insurance industry inflation. To take your questions in turn: How the ONS calculates insurance inflation for the purposes of the Consumer Price Index, and whether differences in methodology account for the differences between ONS and ABI measures of inflation. Our data sources […]
On Tuesday 23 May, Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry on the work of the UK Statistics Authority. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr Jones, I write in response to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee with an update of some key labour market statistics for the inquiry, ‘post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets”. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) was asked to provide an update to the analysis supplied to the Committee in our written […]
Dear Mr Brine, I noted the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry, ‘Assisted dying/assisted suicide’ and wanted to highlight analysis the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published in April 2022, ‘Suicides among people diagnosed with severe or life-threatening conditions, England, 2017 to 2020’. This analysis looked at the risk of suicide in people with severe […]
On Tuesday 7 February, Mike Keoghan, Deputy National Statistician for Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics, Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee for their inquiry UK plc 2050. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
On Wednesday 7 December, Mike Keoghan, Deputy National Statistician for Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics, Office for National Statistics, and Darren Morgan, Director for Economic Statistics Production and Analysis, Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Science and Technology Committee for their inquiry, ‘Research and Development Statistics’. A transcript of which has been published […]
Dear Mr Betts, I write in response to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee’s inquiry into Funding for Levelling Up. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) is the independent regulatory arm of the UK Statistics Authority and provides independent regulation of all official statistics produced in the UK. We aim to enhance public confidence […]
Dear Dame Meg, I wanted to write in my role as Head of the Government Analysis Function regarding your Committee’s report and the subsequent Government response on Use of evaluation and modelling in government. For recommendation 5b, we gave a target implementation date of summer 2022. This was in error: it should have said summer […]
On Thursday 20 October, Sarah Henry, Director for Methodology and Quality at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee for its inquiry, ‘Civil Service People Survey’. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr Knight, I write in response to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation’s call for evidence for its inquiry, ‘misinformation and trusted voices’. As the Committee may be aware, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s National Statistical Institute and largest producer of official statistics. We […]