Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions his Department has received representations from the UK Statistics Authority on his Department's presentation and use of statistics in each year since 2010.

Details on the UK Statistics Authority’s interventions are published in the correspondence¹, publications², and issues log³ sections of their website since 2010.

The Authority’s Office for Statistics Regulation also carry out regular assessments and systemic reviews, details of which can also be found on the Authority’s website⁴.

In September 2018, the Authority published the first annual summary of its interventions for the financial year 2017/18⁵. The report for 2018/19 will be published in the autumn.

Notes:

¹https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence-list/

²https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publications-list/

³https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/reports-and-correspondence/issues-log/

⁴https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/osr/

⁵https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/annual-casework-review-20172018/