National Statistics Status of Road Freight Statistics
Updated 29 July 2021
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National Statistics status
National Statistics status means that our statistics meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and public value, and it is our responsibility to maintain compliance with these standards.
The continued designation of the road freight statistics as National Statistics was confirmed in December 2016 following a compliance check by the Office for Statistics Regulation against the Code of Practice in July 2016.
Changes to these statistics
Since the latest review by the Office for Statistics Regulation, we have continued to comply with the Code of Practice for Statistics, and have made the following improvements by:
- strengthened confidence and trust in the statistics by completing quality assurance checks on administrative data supplied by the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency and Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency
- increased public value of the statistics by improving chart presentation
- increased public value of the statistics by publishing in a machine readable format