The Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Baroness Grender about Homelessness statistics

20 February 2017 · Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation

The letter is dated 20 February 2017. The Office for Statistics Regulation published it as Homelessness statistics. Below are 2 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote

“Firstly, we would have expected the DCLG press briefing issued on 13 December, which stated ‘homelessness is less than half the 2003 peak’, to have explicitly included the statutory homelessness definition.”

“You may be aware that our assessment of DCLG’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Statistics in December 20152 highlighted concerns that the statutory homelessness statistics presented as they were, without the broader context of increasing local authority prevention and relief activity, were potentially misleading, but noted DCLG’s commitment to publish a better integrated set of statistics to increase their public value.”

From Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation, letter of 20 February 2017. Read the full letter.

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