Cabinet Office to scrutinise failings of UK’s official data provider ONS

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One of the highest civil servants of the government has been instructed to reach the bottom of the data produced by the National Statistics Office, as concerns about the reliability of the numbers used in Westminster.

Cabin’s office Minister Pet McFadden has asked his high-ranking cat little Ons: Fearing that Chancellor Rachel Reves left a flying blind because he raises his own economy plans.

“The wall believes that this is an obvious issue,” said one partner of the minister. “He raised it with a permanent secretary [Little] And it said that it is very important that we have data on which we can count on. “

Little and his colleagues have been asked to provide possible government’s actions to make actional actions about the errors of official economic indicators, according to his briefing knowledge. Among the ideas about the table is an independent review, although no decision has been made.

Last week, Dame Meg Hillier, the chairman of the influential treasury election commission, wrote the national statistician, highlighted the “worrying mistakes and delays”.

One reeeves ally said: “There is disappointment that we make economic decisions when the data is incorrect. It’s a little problem. “

Ons has collided with some of the market sensitive data that complicates the economy for British politicians. Concern is focused on the failure of the main research of the workforce, which is based on job data, but continues to find problems in other parts of its products.

The fragile data stopped the publication of two manufacturer’s prices that help to calculate GDP and criticized for the “sprayed economic reasoning” of the Institute for Fisciplinary Studies, “Revaluation of Pension Wealth.”

The Bank of the British Monetary Policy Committee underlined “High-quality and reliable official data on the whole range of economic and labor market statistics”, Governor Andrew Bailey component the quality of jobs numbers.

The Office of Statistics Resolution, the British Statistics Body, which controls the country’s statistical system, plans to publish an intermediate report through the systemic review of economic statistics last year.

⁠An official McFadden told him that he was worried about the questions. “We need to have reliable data, and it is vital for it,” said the source.

In his letter, Hillier told the head of the statistics that he was “worried about the influence of non-reliable labor market statistics and whether there are problems.”

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Hiller asked to update the nature and causes of the errors found in the manufacturer’s prices, as well as the response to IFS of Wealth Numbers.

He also asked more information on the issues related to commercial data after March 13 after March 13.

After examining this issue on Friday, he released updates according to his trading data. Among the problems, there were mistakes in HM revenues and customs data that relate to the import of goods and errors in the system of system processing services.

However, review For 2023 and 2024, numbers did not affect the broader GDP data.

Government office refused to comment. “It remains that” the highest quality statistics of the focused public good remains “and are committed to the continuous improvement of our methods and approaches.”