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Written question asked by John Healey (Labour) on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 14 May 2018 (named day). A holding answer was provided on Monday, 14 May 2018. A substantive answer was provided by Dominic Raab (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 on behalf of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Land Use

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the (a) nature and (b) cause of the technical issue relating to the extraction of the underlying data was which caused the delay of the publication of Land Use Change statistics 2016 to 2017 from 24 January 2018 to 31 May 2018.

Answer

The Department will publish Land Use Change Statistics for 2016-17 on 31 May.

To produce these statistics, the Department obtains data produced by the Ordnance Survey. Over the course of this year, the Ordnance Survey has been making technical improvements to the processes it uses to capture up-to-date and robust information on land use change – these improvements are to ensure that the methodology continues to detect real world changes in land use during 2016-17 as accurately as possible and not changes in land use that are due to other regular Ordnance Survey data updates. These technical improvements meant that the methodology used to produce the final land use change figures also required updating, to ensure that the figures for 2016-17 are consistent with past figures and for this reason the release will be published later this month.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
142329
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Administrative delays Land use Statistics
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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