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Migration: Statistics

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated April 2008:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning what discussions the Office for National Statistics had with Government departments before the Office’s revised methodology for allocating international migrants to regions and local authority areas was published. (199300).""Over a significant period of time prior to implementation, ONS officials had regular discussions with the key Departmental users of population and migration statistics, specifically:""The Department for Communities and Local Government, given their role with local grant funding;""The Department of Health, including representation on the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Advisory Committee for Resource Allocation (ACRA); and""The devolved administrations.""Government departments and other users were kept informed at each stage in the development and implementation of the improved methodology. Papers were submitted for discussion at the regular meetings held with the population sub-group of Central and Local Information Partnership (CLIP). Membership of CLIP includes representatives from Government departments, as well as from local government. The proposed new methodology was first discussed by CLIP in April 2006 prior to the announcement, in August 2006, of plans to implement the revised methods. The publication of indicative figures and explanatory papers followed in April 2007. Presentations of the methods were made at conferences and seminars, in particular at the British Society of Population Studies."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

474 c1698-9W; 199300

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Migration Statistics

Link

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