Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
In our latest blog, Sir Robert Chote, the newly appointed Chair of the UK Statistics Authority reflects on our State of the Statistical System 2021/22 report, and why he wanted…
Statistics Regulator Ben Bohane discusses what ‘Levelling up’ means and how we, as the statistics watchdog, are going to monitor its impact.
Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation explains how OSR secures positive change in the way statistics are produced, presented and the public's confidence and understanding of them.
22 July 2022
OSR Statistics Regulators Vicky Stone and Chris Davies look at the role of statistics in the Cost of Living Crisis debate.
24 June 2022
Grace Pitkethly, Insights and Evaluation Manager at OSR writes about how the use of official statistics can improve the already essential tool of evaluation to ensure the effective functioning of…
13 June 2022
In our latest guest blog, Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Race Disparity Unit, discusses the proposed changes to the Ethnicity facts and figures website, for which…
27 May 2022
To mark Analysis in Government month, OSR Regulator Oliver Fox-Tatum discusses how important analysis has become in our lives, and OSR’s hopes for the future of production, use and value…
11 May 2022
Martin Mayock, Head of the Family Practitioner Services (FPS) Information Unit in Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care (HSC) Business Services Organisation (BSO), and a Senior Statistician in the Northern…
5 May 2022
Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards details the changes being made to the Code of Practice for Statistics on 5 May 2022.
29 April 2022
Dr Mary Cowan explores the findings of PCOS 2021, which suggests that official statistics are relevant and accessible to many members of the public. However, there are still some who…
14 April 2022
A look into the latest Government Statistical Service cross-government housing and planning statistics work programme, and how the Code of Practice for Statistics feeds into it.
1 April 2022
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
24 March 2022
On 5 May 2022, we’ll be making our first change to our Code of Practice for Statistics since its major overhaul in 2018. We’ll be changing two practices, which relate…