Responses to the ONS consultation on the Approved Researcher Scheme
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:55 am
Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Service, discusses the responses to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) consultation on the Approved Researcher Scheme.
Today (July 3 2015) the ONS published a paper detailing the responses to the ONS consultation on the Approved Researcher Scheme. This document provides the basic evidence from which an Expert iran rcs data Steering Group were able to construct a detailed series of recommendations to the National Statistician to improve the existing Approved Researcher process. At the time of writing these recommendations have not been submitted, and I can’t pre-empt either the final set of recommendations or the National Statistician’s response to them. But I can say a little about how the UK Data Service has an impact in exercises like these, even though the Service did not formally make a response to the consultation.
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Informing the consultation
In December 2014, I was approached to join a small steering group which had the primary aim of creating recommendations for changes to the Approved Researcher status. There were only three external representatives on this group, myself, and delegates of both the HSCIC and the Royal Statistical Society.
Today (July 3 2015) the ONS published a paper detailing the responses to the ONS consultation on the Approved Researcher Scheme. This document provides the basic evidence from which an Expert iran rcs data Steering Group were able to construct a detailed series of recommendations to the National Statistician to improve the existing Approved Researcher process. At the time of writing these recommendations have not been submitted, and I can’t pre-empt either the final set of recommendations or the National Statistician’s response to them. But I can say a little about how the UK Data Service has an impact in exercises like these, even though the Service did not formally make a response to the consultation.
ons
Informing the consultation
In December 2014, I was approached to join a small steering group which had the primary aim of creating recommendations for changes to the Approved Researcher status. There were only three external representatives on this group, myself, and delegates of both the HSCIC and the Royal Statistical Society.