Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions his Department has received representations from the UK Statistics Authority on his Department's presentation and use of statistics in each year since 2010.

Details of the UK Statistics Authority’s interventions are published in the correspondence, publications, and issues log sections of their website since 2010 and can be found here:

https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence-list/

https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publications-list/

https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/reports-and-correspondence/issues-log/

The Authority’s Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) also carry out regular assessments and systemic reviews, details of which can also be found on the Authority’s website here: https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/osr/.

In September 2018, the Authority published the first annual summary of its interventions for the financial year 2017/18. The report for 2018/19 will be published in the autumn.