Accredited official statistics

Private registered providers pre-release access list

Updated 21 August 2024

Applies to England

Introduction

Equality of access to official statistics is a fundamental principle of statistical good practice and the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 restricts the privileged access to official statistics (including national statistics) in their final form before their release into the public domain. In accordance with this, we have removed pre-release access to our statistics in all but exceptional circumstances. Pre-release access does not include those individuals who:

  • produce and publicise the statistics (including those responsible for oversight of the process).
  • are asked to quality assure the statistics before their public release.

Pre-release access to 2022/23 statistics

No pre-release access was granted to these statistics.

Internal access

For transparency, the list below provides details of the roles within RSH who participated in the production of these statistics or required them for operational activity. These individuals are all instructed to keep the statistics secure and under embargo until their release. As part of this they are explicitly requested to:

  • not disclose the statistics or any part of the publication to anyone not directly involved with the production.
  • not refer to any levels or trends in any materials (excepting where raw SDR data has been analysed separately for internal work on specific operational elements for regulatory purposes).
  • not use their access for personal gain or political advantage by exploiting their access to change the content, presentation or timing of publication of official statistics.
Role Purpose Date access granted
RSH staff members    
Head of data and statistics Data collection, analysis and statistics production  
Data project analysts and data analysts Data collection, analysis and statistics production  
Support officers Data collection, analysis and statistics production  
Regulatory assurance manager Incoming data quality assurance on group structures 27/06/2023
Director of strategy Quality assurance and oversight 01/09/2023
Assistant director of Business Intelligence Quality assurance and oversight 01/09/2023
Head of economics Quality assurance and analysis for operational purposes 01/09/2023
Economists and research analysts Analysis for operational purposes 01/09/2023
Head of communications Preparation of release and announcement 06/10/2023
Communications manager Preparation of release and announcement 06/10/2023
Deputy chief executive Preparation of announcement 9.30am 23/10/2023
Chief executive Preparation of announcement 9.30am 23/10/2023