Chote’s departure leaves three positions at the head of the UK’s statistics system unfilled. These include the role of national statistician previously held by Sir Ian Diamond and a newly created post ...

The UK will split the role of the country’s top statistician after a hard-hitting official report that criticised the Office ...

Sir Robert Chote has resigned as chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, which oversees official data published by a range ...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK government’s statistics authority, charged with “collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK’s economy, society and ...

Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) will split its leadership in two and invest more money into fixing problems ...

A "dismal" month for supermarkets led to retail sales falling in May at the fastest pace for more than a year, the UK's statistics body has said. Sales volumes dropped 2.7% in May, the biggest monthly ...

Britain's statistics office has hired a Bank of England official to lead its push to improve its economic data after a string of failures.

This figure is based on responses collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of its most recent crime survey of England and Wales, which was carried out in the year to March 2024.

Some 50,973 offences were recorded by forces in England and Wales in the 12 months to June 2024. This is up 4% from 49,187 offences in the previous 12 months, but is 2% lower than the 51,982 ...

The head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has resigned because “ongoing health issues” mean he could not give the organisation the “full commitment” required to drive it forward.

The Office for National Statistics said Thursday that it has pushed back the January trade release to March 28 after problems relating to services trade data for 2023.

National Statistician Ian Diamond, head of the Office for National Statistics and chief statistics adviser to the U.K. government, is resigning with immediate effect due to health issues, the ONS ...