Dear Lord Forsyth, Following the Committee’s recent report on Measuring Inflation, I write with the UK Statistics Authority’s response to your recommendations. As your report made clear, the question faced by the Authority in 2012 was whether to make substantive changes to the construction of the Retail Prices Index (RPI). The decision made by the […]
On Tuesday 2 April 2019, Sir David Norgrove, Chair, UK Statistics Authority; John Pullinger, National Statistician, UK Statistics Authority; and Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, UK Statistics Authority gave evidence to a Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee as part of their Governance of Statistics inquiry. A transcript of which has been published on […]
Dear Bernard, I am writing in response to the Committee’s request for further information on the seniority of statistical Heads of Profession in departments, with reference to question 4 of the terms of reference for the Governance of Statistics inquiry, which asks how the roles of Heads of Profession and Government Statistical Service (GSS) statisticians […]
Dear Bernard, I am writing in response to the Committee’s call for evidence for its inquiry, Governance of Statistics. I welcome this inquiry, and the opportunity it provides to support the Committee’s wider work in helping to ‘create conditions where the public can have justified confidence in public services/government.’ The following submission explains how the […]
Dear Lord Forsyth, I am writing with additional information the Committee requested when we gave evidence on 12 June. These are attached at Annex A. I would also like to take this opportunity to reaffirm the position of the UK Statistics Authority that the Retail Prices Index (RPI) is not a good measure of inflation, […]