Consultation launched on UK statistical code

The code sets the standards for all official statistics in the UK.

Part of the OSR’s proposal is to create a hub to present the different elements of the code – the thinking that underpins the code, the guiding principles, and the TQV (trustworthiness, quality and value) standards for official statistics and intelligent transparency.

The OSR would like to hear from a range of people, including those who work in organisations that publish statistics and those who make use of the statistics. The consultation is open until 14 February 2025.

Dependent on the responses received, a new version of the code could be published by summer 2025.

Ed Humpherson, director general of regulation said: “In refreshing the code, our aim is to ensure that the universality and content of the code is clear to a wide range of audiences – producers of official statistics, other analysts within and beyond government, users of statistics and other stakeholders with an interest in statistics, as well as members of the public and OSR itself, as the statistics regulator.”