ONS strategic improvement update: December 2025

This report summarises progress across the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in implementing its Plan for Economic Statistics (ESP) and Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan (SIEP) since June 2025. These plans are critical to the ONS achieving its mission to deliver trustworthy, independent, high-quality statistics that underpin the UK’s most critical economic and societal decisions and inform the public.

With several ESP and SIEP milestones completed and delivery in progress across other actions, the quality and trustworthiness of our statistics have improved. Highlights include:

Better quality statistics

• In August 2025, we improved the methodology used to produce an index for house prices, reducing its susceptibility to future revisions.

• In September 2025, we revamped our monthly GDP release moving to lead on the “three-month on three-month” measure as the headline and improving its presentation with the inclusion of a series of new charts (responding to direct feedback).

• The Blue Book and Pink Book were published in October 2025; this year’s publications saw the successful implementation of improved source data on research and development and improvements to the way we measure the activities of large multinational companies, giving enhanced estimates for industries such as pharmaceuticals.

• In October 2025, we resumed publication of the Producer Price Index, correcting the error that prompted the suspension of the Index in April, improving the quality of the weights in the index and strengthening the prices production process.

• In November 2025, we published an update on methods for migration to replace the International Passenger Survey with more accurate administrative data.

Improved surveys

• The face-to-face interviewer community has expanded by 16%, enabling an additional 1,900 interviews each month and restoring Labour Force Survey (LFS) achieved sample sizes similar to levels seen prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• The Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS) short Core Survey was successfully launched in July 2025 and Supported Completion, which enables interviewers to assist respondents within their own homes went live in October 2025.

• We have expanded electronic data collection for the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE).

• Business surveys incorporated HMRC’s Corporation Tax data for better sampling, moved the Business Prices surveys online, and expanded the Large Cases Unit to handle 12 multinational, large scale business groups.

Improved use of technology and source data

• Three AI projects are advancing: ClassifAI for occupation coding (now in production for two surveys and being rolled out elsewhere), ScannerAI for receipt data processing (launching April 2026), and Survey Assist for targeted follow-up questions in TLFS, currently under trial.

• We have implemented a new data governance model to improve management of critical data sources across the production cycle, and published a new approach to sourcing and making best use of key data.

Challenges

While a recovery is underway, there is further to go to fully restore quality. We have corrected major errors, including corrections to the Retail Sales Index (September 2025), and Public Sector Finances (October 2025), but there have been too many errors and delays to releases. We have been open about the lessons learned, which have prompted improvements to our processes and governance, including quality assurance and supplier engagement. One cross-cutting issue has been with the quality of source data, and the Office for Statistics Regulation has now launched a systemic review into statistics production at His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. We need to improve our underlying systems and further embed continuous quality improvement to reduce the occurrence of errors and drive more efficient ways of working.

More broadly, we are actively managing three risks to the plans. First, recruitment to fill the required roles is still underway and is taking place alongside a drive to recruit to deliver the coming census. We are looking to redeploy more colleagues across the ONS to fill outstanding vacancies. Second, the volume of change required to drive improvements and address legacy systems is large. We have launched a multi-year business planning process to ensure our ambition is realistic. Third, work to embed new international macro-economic standards by 2030 comes alongside delivery of Census 2031. Given a flat budget envelope, growing efficiencies will be needed over time to achieve these ambitions.

Some future milestone dates, including a three month delay in data rotation in the TLFS, have been revised reflecting the time taken to mobilise resources and some additional complexities which have come to light through implementation. We detail the affected milestones in the attached updates.

New strategic outcomes

To focus our work, the ONS has established three strategic outcomes.

Success is when we have:

1. improved the quality and trustworthiness of the statistics we publish
2. provided society and decision makers with timely and relevant data and statistics
3. developed an efficient, resilient, and adaptable organisation with the right capabilities for the future

To improve quality and trustworthiness across our statistics, we are undertaking further work to enhance data collection, deliver significant system upgrades, and create staff bandwidth for continuous improvement activity. Our drive to increase transparency has been well received by our users. This includes our commitment to these quarterly progress updates, explaining what we have fixed, what remains to do, and how we are measuring success, as well as seeking feedback on our future steps. We have been upfront in explaining revisions and errors in our data, including setting out the steps we are taking to prevent a recurrence.

To support production of timely and relevant data and statistics, the ONS announced in November that we are narrowing our range of statistical outputs to focus on areas where we are uniquely placed to underpin critical economic and societal decisions. This reflects widespread views that we need to prioritise quality over quantity. This, and other tough prioritisation decisions we are making, will generate capacity to expedite recovery work by creating more space for quality assurance and improvement work. Feedback from users on our decision to prioritise quality has been positive. We have increased collaboration with users and independent experts to ensure our approaches are robust, and to shape our overall priorities, including establishing an external steering group that includes the Bank of England, HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office, and the Office of Budget Responsibility.

To develop an efficient, resilient, and adaptable organisation with future-ready capabilities, our new senior leadership have strengthened structures and governance across the ONS, supported by new strategic objectives. Together with developing integrated multi-year plans and a refreshed technology strategy, these will cement our focus on the delivery of core statistics.

This summary report is accompanied by two detailed summaries, one for the ESP and one for the SIEP, also published today. The ESP includes an update on our priorities for improving the quality of household finance statistics, laying out the related milestones and seeking user feedback. We also publish A New Approach to Data Sources - the Data that Matter, outlining the principles, priorities, and practical initiatives underpinning how we source and make best use of data to produce relevant, reliable, and inclusive statistics, as promised in response to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) report of April 2025.

Delivery against these plans is our top priority and the milestones within reflect the breadth of ONS activity and commitment to improve its statistics. The ESP and SIEP will evolve as “living documents” which can be refined in light of new information. Having now established a transparent reporting cycle, we will continue to engage users and ensure we reflect changing priorities and needs. User feedback on these reports is welcomed by the ONS and can be submitted to econstatsplan@ons.gov.uk.

In June 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the Plan for Economic Statistics (ESP) and the Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan (SIEP) to restore the quality of economic and population statistics. They form part of the response to Sir Robert Devereux’s Review of the ONS’s performance and culture and the Office Statistics Regulation’s (OSR) systemic review of economic statistics. These plans will be refreshed annually, following ONS business planning.

The ESP committed the ONS to publish a plan addressing household finance surveys and statistics, today we are updating on our progress towards this. We are also publishing a new approach to Data Sources, setting out three strategic objectives to source and exploit the “data that matters” to manage and improve the quality of critical data sources, to maximise the value from existing data sources, and to deliver a transparent and coherent approach to sourcing new data.

This overall assessment of progress by the ONS since June outlines strategic improvement which goes beyond the individual plans, and serves as a key contribution to the strengthened governance and quality assurance put in place across the statistics system.

The ONS has undergone rapid change since the publication of the plans. Following the arrival in August of a new Director-General (James Benford) for Surveys and Economic Statistics, we have also implemented end-to-end integrated management along the statistical production cycle with responsibility for both the ESP and the SIEP. The ONS will integrate the ESP and SIEP into a single plan in the coming business planning period.

The ONS welcomed a new Permanent Secretary (Darren Tierney) in August as part of splitting the role of National Statistician into two, each with clear roles and responsibilities designed to lead and assure the progress outlined in this report. Darren Tierney, as accounting officer, is responsible for delivery of the ONS business plan.

Emma Rourke, as Acting National Statistician, has a system-wide leadership role. In relation to the ONS, the Acting National Statistician and her successor will advise the Board at a strategic level on the quality of ONS outputs and appropriateness of methodology of key statistics.

Both Acting National Statistician and Permanent Secretary report to the UK Statistics Authority Board.

The Authority Board has updated its values which will ground its work going forward:

• openness, in engaging with users of statistics, with a willingness to listen, respond and collaborate
• innovation, where this is a means to better serve our core purpose
• efficiency, in how we prioritise, use and share resources and data
• rigour, in our analysis, assessment and quality assurance

The ONS has established three strategic outcomes which clarify and group the actions outlined in the plans.

Success is when we have:

1. improved the quality and trustworthiness of the statistics we publish
2. provided society and decision-makers with timely and relevant data and statistics
3. developed an efficient, resilient, and adaptable organisation with the right capabilities for the future

We are establishing a robust set of key performance indicators (KPIs) against these strategic outcomes as part of the coming business planning process. As part of this we are considering the number of errors found to published statistics, delays to published statistics, suspended OSR accreditations, achieved sample sizes for surveys relative to target, and measures of stakeholder confidence. We will publish KPIs in future progress reports.

Improve the quality and trustworthiness of the statistics we publish

Delivering improvements to our data sources, systems and statistical production activity is key to producing trustworthy, independent, high-quality statistics. The ESP and SIEP set transparent milestones to track progress towards this objective.

Following the OSR Systemic Review of Economic Statistics, we will initiate a regular review programme of our outputs, which will provide in-depth assurance of statistical quality, identify improvement opportunities, support organisational learning and inform investments to address new key quality challenges. Our reviews will be complemented by the deployment of a new model of working, which supports delivery of quality improvement through increasing visibility of end-to-end statistical processes (from data collection to statistical outputs) and encourages colleagues to identify opportunities for improvement.

A headline summary of SIEP progress since June 2025 includes:

Social Surveys

We have:

• Delivered a major step forward in strengthening survey delivery by expanding our face-to-face interviewer community by 16%. This investment has enabled an additional 1,900 face-to-face interviews to be achieved each month across all surveys between April and October 2025. On the Labour Force Survey specifically, this progress has been pivotal in delivering achieved sample sizes similar to levels seen prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (a milestone recently noted by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook report).

• Introduced innovative tools to improve survey efficiency and enhanced our telephone-based operations. Successful introduction of an innovative Record of Spending tool on the Living Cost and Food Survey will automate diary spending returns reducing interviewer admin and improving data quality.

• Made progress on the Transformed Labour Force Survey, including the launch of the short Core Survey in July 2025, a streamlined questionnaire of around 15 minutes per household, already increasing full responses and improving representation by increasing participation among larger households.

Business Surveys

We have:

• Begun using the Statistical Business Register (SBR) in live production, incorporating HMRC’s Corporation Tax data to deliver insights into business activity and improve sampling.

• Introduced new Account Management practices to enhance the business experience and data quality.

• Expanded the Large Cases Unit to handle 12 multinational groups in the UK, accounting for six per cent (163) of the reporting units responding to the Monthly Business Survey.

• Moved the Business Prices suite of surveys online, achieving cost savings and moving closer towards digital-by-default.

• Continued development on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) to transition businesses reporting for over five employees to online collection for April 2026.

Whilst most surveys’ milestones are on track, we have further to go to improve the quality of our surveys and restore confidence in our operations. Of the 52 SIEP milestones, nine have been completed, one action is yet to start, 26 are on track for successful completion, with a further eight in train with identified challenges to timeline or quality, and eight are in train with identified challenges in delivery by their target date. These include milestones related to the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS), and those relating to ASHE.

Reflecting its importance, we continue to update on TLFS progress through our regular dedicated labour market transformation progress updates, with the latest published in November. Though the launch of the streamlined questionnaire in July went well, implementing a solution to rotate data submitted in Wave 1 of the survey to future waves, in order to reduce respondent burden, has proved more challenging than expected and we are now working to complete it by April 2026 rather than January 2026. This will mean there is only one, rather than two, quarters of rotated data available in July 2026 when we plan to review with users whether to transition to the TLFS. We are working through the implications with stakeholders.

Further work is needed to ensure our plans on the implementation of complex projects, that are vital to improving survey quality, such as those relating to the Statistical Business Register and to ASHE are robust and well prioritised and sequenced.

The ESP contains themes relating to our headline statistics; population, National Accounts and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), labour market statistics, trade and balance of payments statistics, prices, public sector finances, and how we will deliver the new international Standards and Classification structures relating to economic statistics. In each of these themes, progress has been made against the ESP milestones, noting the majority of milestones in the first year are scheduled for completion in March 2026.

Headline deliverables include:

Population

• In November 2025, we published an update on methods for migration to move away from reliance on the International Passenger Survey and improve the information available.

• We are working to implement best practice coding and pipelines, with migration outputs expected to meet best practice standards by March 2026.

• We continue to make greater use of administrative data to improve the quality of population estimates, with updates due before March 2026.

GDP

• In September 2025, we revamped our monthly GDP release moving to lead on the “three-month on three-month” measure as the headline and improving its presentation with the inclusion of a series of new charts, responding to direct feedback.

• In October 2025, we published the Blue Book, providing the annual update of national accounts and providing a co-ordinated approach for implementing improvements, including improving our R&D surveys and deflators, and the methodology for accounting for the pharmaceutical sector.

Trade and Balance of Payments statistics

• Publication of the Pink Book in October 2025, offering our annual update of the UK’s trade and balance of payments statistics, including improvements to Foreign Direct Investment data following a pause in its production, and improvements in the measurement of the pharmaceutical sector to take better account of the impact of globalisation.

Labour Market

• Continued improvements to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) following increased sample sizes, return to face-to-face interviewing, and increasing numbers of interviewers, achieved sample sizes similar to levels seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Progress in the Transformed Labour Force Survey via the short Core Survey and assisted completion.

• Expanded use of electronic data collection for ASHE to include all businesses with more than five responses, with plans to move to full electronic collection for the 2026 survey.

• In December we will be moving off legacy systems for the employee jobs element of workforce jobs.

Prices

• Interim house price index (HPI) methods improvements have been introduced since August, reducing bias in future early estimates of house price inflation.

• The publication of monthly producer prices bulletin and tables were restarted in October 2025, and source data has been migrated to an electronic collection system.

Public Sector Finances

• Use of our new local government pipeline for Public Sector and National Accounts, ensuring data is more structured, removing legacy technology, and achieving efficiency gains.

• We have responded to OSR on their requirements for the economic classifications process.

Delivering the new International Standards

• Professor Martin Weale has been re-appointed as chair of NS-CASE to ensure continuity in the advice provided to the National Statistician and Permanent Secretary on implementing International Standards.

• A roadmap of change activities has been developed through to 2030 with further refinement expected as interdependencies and sequencing are identified, with a coordinated programme launched to implement standards.

• ONS continues to engage proactively within the international community to develop implementation guidance to support significant changes, particularly the measurement of the depletion of natural resources and the measurement of data-as-an-asset.

In addition, in the ESP, we flagged the requirement to develop a plan to bring Household Finance statistics back to the standard needed by key users. In the ESP update, we set out our priorities to gather further user feedback ahead of finalising this plan by Spring 2026.

While much progress has been made across the themes, there are five milestones in the ESP at risk of not delivering by their March 2026 milestone. These principally relate to the issues with surveys (specifically the SBR, ASHE and the TLFS) described in the previous section. In addition, we are reassessing the milestone relating to quarterly regional GDP as research has identified further methods and data challenges that need to be addressed before we can reinstate these estimates.

Provide society and decision-makers with timely and relevant data and statistics

The ONS sits at the heart of the Government Statistical Service, and the National Statistician remains the head of that service, with a role to support statistical development and production across all government departments and nations of the UK. To ensure the ONS can focus on the measures which only it can deliver, we have re-prioritised activity to ensure our core outputs (GDP and national accounts, trade and balance of payments statistics, prices, public sector finances, labour market and population data) are given the resources necessary. This has led to our plans to narrow the scope of the ONS’s portfolio, focusing on delivering trustworthy, independent and high-quality statistics within these themes, alongside preparations for Census 2031. Details were set out on 13 November, with a key priority of quality over quantity, and we are gathering user feedback over the next quarter. This approach has been endorsed by the Authority Board, and we continue to engage with them, and wider stakeholders and users.

Our data, methods, and outcomes are constantly reviewed to ensure they remain fit for purpose. We have also renewed our focus on transparency: explaining our methodology, the role of revisions, and being open and upfront about any errors, their causes, and actions to address them. These serve to restore users’ trustworthiness and confidence in the ONS and its statistics.

Develop an efficient, resilient and adaptable organisation with the right capabilities for the future

Skilled and motivated people

We have put in place new structures to support staff engagement and development, central to which is a new People Committee. One focus of the committee is to ensure the availability of skills to deliver the ONS’s priorities, and it is undertaking a skills audit and staff survey. By prioritising what we do, we are working to ensure workloads are sustainable, so staff can invest in themselves and pass on learnings to others. There is a need to fill the posts needed to deliver the improvement plans. 150 roles were repurposed in support of the ESP and so far:

• 34 staff have been redeployed within the ONS’s economic statistics areas
• 49 staff have been moved into economic statistics from other parts of the ONS
• 42 staff are in the process of being on-boarded
• recruitment continues at pace for the remaining roles, with 470 candidates identified for interview

We are also developing training material for new staff, and the School of National Accounts has delivered 20 courses over the summer, with plans to ramp up activity.

Systems and technology

The ONS has an emerging technology strategy, focused on a smaller number of strategic components and a federated model, with a stronger partnership between the central technology teams and statistical production areas. The Integrated Data Service Programme has been closed and its capabilities re-focused on core statistics production, starting with a new project to link labour market data. We have started recruitment for a new Director General for Data, Digital and Technology.

The ESP also contains a workstream relating to AI and modern statistical production systems, through which three AI projects are on track for delivery:

• ClassifAI, a survey text classification tool that uses Large Language models to code occupations in ASHE, and the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES). This marked the first use of generative AI in an ONS statistical process, improving coding accuracy and saving 225 hours that were reinvested in quality assurance.

• ScannerAI, which uses generative AI to process receipt data for the Living Costs and Food (LCF) Survey, and is on track for implementation in April 2026, reducing processing time of survey responses and supporting wider improvements in the LCF.

• Survey Assist, a generative AI tool being tested in the TLFS, producing targeted follow-up questions when respondents provide insufficient detail, particularly improving quality for “complex questions” on industry and occupation where over half of responses provide insufficient detail. A trial is running now, with results evaluated in January.

The Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan (SIEP) committed to a series of business survey quality reviews to sequence the removal of legacy technology. Through weighting surveys by the extent to which they are used in published outputs, we can identify a prioritised order for how we should conduct these method reviews. For any identified changes to be implemented, we will need to remove the legacy technology and thus the priority for how we tackle legacy reduction is a secondary plan from this work.

Within production teams, a range of improvements had been made. For example, we have successfully transferred our core labour productivity system from legacy, saving staff time for each quarterly run.

Effective sourcing and use of data, with a focus on quality improvements

We have:

• Implemented a new data governance model and plan, ensuring we identify the most critical data sources to ONS’s core outputs to improve quality through better end-to-end management of these sources.

• We have published, alongside this update, a new approach to source and use the data that matter for our core outputs.

All this is aimed at maximising value through greater integration and re-use across outputs, and to prioritise sourcing new data to address gaps.

As a standard part of these quarterly updates, the ONS will report on substantial errors and the steps we have taken to address these. This will not replace correction notices on our website, but draws out common lessons and reports on progress against them.

When an error is identified, the ONS corrects it as soon as practicable, following the Code of Practice for Statistics, and in line with the ONS Corrections and Revisions Policies.

The following section reports the substantial errors since the publication of the ESP.

The ONS and other government departments have a common interest in supporting data quality and in ensuring coherence across the statistical landscape. This highlights the importance of the National Statistician’s role to drive improvements across the Government Statistical System. As set out in the commitments within the new approach to data sources, we will take an end-to-end approach to managing our critical data sources, from engaging data suppliers to working closely with data users, ensuring processes are robust and resilient, and improving data quality. This involves strengthening relationships with key data suppliers, so risks are understood, and the mechanisms to understand and challenge what is provided to the ONS are as strong as possible.

We do not underestimate the volume of changes required to address the challenges laid out in Sir Robert Devereux’s findings, and to restore trust in the quality of our core economic outputs. There is a need to reflect on the volume of change ahead, particularly given the overlap between the timetables for implementing the international macro-economic standards and delivery of Census 2031. We are also aware of the views of the OSR and others that the Plan for Economic Statistics (ESP) and Survey Improvement and Enhancement Plan (SIEP) are very ambitious.

This will create new challenges in terms of resourcing and the need to focus on maintaining our ability to fully resource our plans at pace, and ensure we are able to deliver high quality outputs as required by our users. We continue to mitigate this risk through active use of external recruitment. High numbers of applicants indicate the ONS remains an attractive place for statisticians and economists to wish to work. Alongside stronger internal planning and technology solutions we are putting in place the foundations necessary for future delivery but will need to continue to focus on efficiency to enable delivery of complex and concurrent delivery agendas.

As we move out of the initial set-up stage to fully activate the Plans, the ONS is increasingly focussed on:

Governance and risk management

• Ensuring the correct governance and assurance is in place and aligns with the HMG Teal Book principles on managing portfolios, programmes, and projects across government, and the expectations of the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee around transparency.

• Three new enterprise-level forums are being stood up: People Committee, which will ensure we make the right investments in our people and strengthen our culture. Strategic Design Committee, which will ensure coherent enterprise design to systems and processes. Performance and Change Committee, which will monitor delivery against our strategic outcomes and manage dependencies between BAU and change.

• We are reviewing general practice around delivering and managing change, including recruiting a new ONS Director of Strategy and Change.

• An ESP ONS Steering group is in place and meets monthly, responsible for setting strategic direction, arbitrating priorities, sequencing and risks, and assuring successful delivery. An External Steering Group, with HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Office for Budget Responsibility, and Bank of England, which allows key users of economics statistics to receive progress reports and steer prioritisation calls, has met twice. Minutes of the Steering Group will be made available on our website.

This is all underpinned by a delegated delivery approach through establishing accountability for delivery, risk management, and assurance of outcomes at the “Theme” level. These boards resolve risks and issues within their themes, escalating as necessary, and maintain alignment to agreed standards and strategy.

Prioritisation and staffing

• We are focussed on the commitments that are of greatest importance today, providing a clear path of delivery to March 2026 and beyond in which we and users can have strong levels of confidence. We will refresh this prioritisation periodically on the basis of stakeholder feedback.

• The ONS has mobilised significant numbers of staff through internal moves and external recruitment. The skills needs of these posts mean the ONS is putting in place robust training to ensure staff become effective.

Stakeholder engagement

• Over the past six months, our stakeholder engagement activity has been extended to better engage key economic stakeholders in the economic statistics space, helping to restore confidence both in our plans for improvement and in our statistics themselves. This approach has been endorsed by the Authority Board, and we will continue to engage with the Board and wider stakeholders and end users as these decisions are implemented.

We are now undertaking a three-year planning exercise to assess feasibility and optimal sequencing of the various initiatives to improve the quality of statistics, taking account of resource availability and the maturity of capabilities and dependencies to ensure ambitions are realistic, provide enough space for excellence in statistical production, fostering innovation, and successfully delivering change.

Improving Labour Market Statistics is an overriding priority, covering both improving the quality of social surveys and transitioning to the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS). This reflects both the scale of this challenge, given the changes to the way households have responded to surveys since the pandemic, and the continued costs of double-running the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and TLFS. Reflecting this we have already launched a new project to measure the extent of bias in survey measures by drawing on administrative data which has established a proof of concept on data for 2021. We are also looking at the international experience of mandating responses to important household surveys.

Beyond that, GDP (including trade and balance of payments), Prices, Public Sector Finances, and Core Population statistics are all priority areas of improvement. Change will be prioritised within these themes, based on their potential to improve quality and meet user needs, as well as any emerging quality challenges and the need to deliver against new international statistical standards.

Broader work to improve business survey systems and methodologies will be prioritised to the areas that are most impactful in improving statistical quality. Embedding quality recovery work within Social Surveys and building long-term sustainability is key, including stabilising increased interviewer numbers, delivering Interview Recognition, boosting financial surveys and communications trials, as well as the launch of a new Statistical Business Register (SBR) this year as our main sampling frame.

Given a fixed budget and the demands that will come with delivering a census in 2031, the ONS will need to release resources from BAU operations over time to maintain momentum in its quality improvement work. We are therefore also weighing the scope to change initiatives to drive efficiency improvements as we prioritise them.

The ONS has delivered significant change at pace since the publication of the ESP and SIEP, making clear prioritisation decisions and supporting these with action to redeploy staff and realign structures to support our strategic outcomes.

The updates published today show the ONS has the capacity to meet these challenges with a strong clarity of mission and leadership expectation, within better governance structures with support across the organisation. New risks and fresh issues have emerged, but we continue to prioritise activity and resources to ensure we reflect these within our programme of activity and meet user needs. Recovery will continue to be a long, hard road, but the first steps have been taken and more will follow. User feedback on this report is welcomed by the ONS and can be submitted to econstatsplan@ons.gov.uk. We appreciate your views.