‘Uncertainties and weaknesses’ behind stats showing drop in UK education...
UK Statistics Authority chair Andrew Dilnot has backed a complaint made by David Miliband over figures used to portray an apparent drop in UK education rankings compared to the rest of the world. The ...
View ArticleSociety backs call to scrap pre-release access to official statistics
RSS President Valerie Isham has written to prime minister David Cameron in support of the UK Statistics Authority’s call to abolish pre-release access to official statistics. UK Statistics ...
View ArticleStatistics Authority calls for greater cohesion in health stats
Recent correspondence between Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the chair of the UK Statistics Authority Andrew Dilnot, has suggested that a working group of representatives could be set up to ...
View ArticleUK Statistics Authority comments on Prime Minister’s debt claim
Andrew Dilnot, the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has commented on a statement made by Prime Minister David Cameron, who had claimed the coalition government was 'paying down Britain's ...
View ArticleMPs produce critical report on trust in government statistics
The UK Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has concluded that while government statistics are produced to a high standard, there are problems which risk public confidence in ...
View ArticleStatistics Authority clarifies Miliband’s use of youth unemployment figures
Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority has this week written to Labour leader Ed Miliband over his claim that ‘only crisis-hit Spain has higher numbers of young unemployed than ...
View ArticleStatistics Authority to investigate public sector borrowing figures
UK Statistics Authority chair Andrew Dilnot has resolved to look into the treatment in official statistics of cash transfers from the Bank of England to the treasury. Chris Giles, economics ...
View ArticleFormer RSS president appointed to UK Statistics Authority board
Former RSS president, Professor David Hand, is to take up the post of non-executive director at the UK Statistics Authority for three years, from 1 April 2013. David was President of the ...
View ArticleOfficial Statistics Section AGM – 25 June
The Society's Official Statistics Section will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 25 June 2013 at Errol street. The AGM will take place prior to the open meeting on Strategy of ...
View ArticleGovernment rejects recommendations regarding pre-release access to official...
The Public Administration Select Committee has published both the government and the UK Statistics Authority responses to its report Public Trust in Government Statistics (opens as pdf). One ...
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