On Wednesday 2 March 2022 Liz McKeown, Director for Public Policy Analysis at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament website.
Dear Mr Clark, I write in response to the Science and Technology Committee’s call for evidence for its inquiry ‘the right to privacy: digital data’. Our submission focuses on the questions raised in the call for evidence, including: The potential benefits, including to research, of effectively using and sharing data between and across Government, other […]
Dear Mr Wragg, I write in response to the Committee’s call for evidence for the inquiry ‘Coronavirus Act 2020: two years on’; specifically, the transparency surrounding the use of data in decision making relating to the renewal of the Coronavirus Act 2020. During the pandemic, the response of statistics producers to publish close to real-time […]
Dear Mr. Dunne, I write in response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s request for evidence for its inquiry into aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability. As the Committee will be aware, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s National Statistical Institute and largest producer of official statistics. We aim to provide […]
Dear Chair, I write in response to the Committee’s report on Inward Foreign Direct Investment, particularly recommendations one and eight regarding the development of data on inward investments. Recommendation 1: Greater transparency about progress, quick implementation of changes and broader engagement of users In 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a development plan […]
Dear Mr Wragg, As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority (the Authority), I am writing to inform the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee about the UK Statistics (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021, that have today been laid before Parliament. The statutory instrument (SI) is a continuation of The UK […]
On 21 October 2021, Sir David Norgrove, Chair, UK Statistics Authority, Professor 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 Stride, Thank you for inviting me to give evidence to your Committee on 15 September for the inquiry ‘An Equal Recovery’. During that evidence session, I promised to follow up on several points, and to answer some questions that members did not have time to ask. Impact of the pandemic on lower-paid workers […]
On 15 September 2021, Liz McKeown, Director for Public Policy Analysis at the Office for National Statistics, gave evidence to the Treasury Committee for its inquiry on an Equal Recovery. A transcript of which has been published on the UK Parliament’s website.
Dear Mr Wragg, I wanted to write to you and your Committee regarding the UK Statistics Authority’s recent establishment of the Centre for Applied Data Ethics, which provides practical support and thought leadership in the application of data ethics by the research and statistical community. This was a direct result from a recommendation from your […]