The UK Statistics Authority wrote about Department for Education statistics

8 October 2018 · Sir David Norgrove, UK Statistics Authority

The letter, dated 8 October 2018, replies to correspondence of 2 October 2018. A reply dated 9 October 2018 is published alongside it. The UK Statistics Authority published it as Department for Education statistics. Below are 2 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the UK Statistics Authority wrote

“Yet the context would clearly lead readers to expect that the figures referred to spending on schools.”

“It should be set in the context of increasing pupil numbers, changes to the inspection framework and some inspections that are now long in the past, as an earlier letter to the Department from the Office of Statistics Regulation pointed out.”

From Sir David Norgrove, UK Statistics Authority, letter of 8 October 2018. Read the full letter.

Correspondence

• The letter it answered: Response from Damian Hinds on Education Statistics (8 October 2018)
• The letter it answered: Concerns regarding statistics on high-performing schools (2 October 2018)
• Published reply: Response from Jonathan Slater on Education Statistics (9 October 2018)

Receipt