The Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Chris Manners about Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statistics

24 March 2017 · Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation

The letter is dated 24 March 2017. The Office for Statistics Regulation published it as Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statistics. Below are 4 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote

“We wanted to be reassured that the very high standards denoted by their National Statistics designation remained merited.”

“The Code of Practice for Official Statistics and the assessment by us, an independent regulator, are an assurance of the impartiality and objectivity of such statistics – which we summarise as their trustworthiness.”

“The UK Statistics Authority has never had any reason to question the integrity of their work and our view is that the statisticians producing these statistics work to high standards of professionalism and ethics.”

“In terms of quality, the Code of Practice for Official Statistics sets out the expectation that users are informed by statistics producers about the quality of statistical outputs and that choices about methodology and sources of information are clearly explained.”

From Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation, letter of 24 March 2017. Read the full letter.

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