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Policies and procedures relating to DWP official statistics

The Department for Work and Pension's (DWP) policies and procedures for producing official statistics and complying with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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All DWP official statistics are produced and published in line with the Office for Statistics Regulation’s Standards for Official Statistics. These policies and procedures explains how DWP meets the principles and practices outlined in the Code of Practice.

We publish the statistical work programme and the pre-release access list separately.

For queries relating to any of our statistics, or our policies and procedures for producing them, contact DWP by email at statistics.hopsupport@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.

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Published 22 April 2026

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