The Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Mike about reporting the costs of domestic abuse

27 February 2019 · Office for Statistics Regulation

The letter is dated 27 February 2019. The Office for Statistics Regulation published it as Reporting the costs of domestic abuse; it links to 2 official records. Below are 3 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote

“Robert Cuffe, Head of Statistics at BBC News, recently contacted us about the estimated cost of domestic abuse that was published in your report: The economic and social cost of domestic abuse and the associated press release that announced the publication of the draft Domestic Abuse Bill.”

“We welcome your publication of this new analysis and the transparency of the methods, but share some of the concerns raised by Mr Cuffe about how the information has been presented, particularly in the associated press release.”

“Your analysts assured us that they were aware of the risk of including the same costs more than once using this method (if the estimates were repeated each year) and that they have no plans to publish these estimates on annual basis.”

From Office for Statistics Regulation, letter of 27 February 2019. Read the full letter.

Records the letter links to

• The economic and social cost of domestic abuse
• press release (gov.uk)

Receipt