Business Register and Employment Survey

Release date:
23 October 2019

You asked

​Please provide the following information:

  1. How many people are employed at the ONS to scan/digitise the returned Business Register and Employment Surveys each year
  2. How long it takes to scan/capture the returned questionnaires each year
  3. An estimate of the cost to scan/capture all the required information on the returned surveys
  4. The location of where the scanning takes place
  5. Who is the Senior Responsible Officer responsible for the Business Register and Employment Survey

We said

Thank you for your request.

Please find our response to your questions as follows:

The scanning of the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) takes place in Newport, in the Integrated Data Capture Area of Business Data Operations Division within the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

This area consists of fifteen members of staff. These work on the data capture of approximately 80 business surveys conducted by ONS. Of these about 15% of effort is dedicated to the working on the scanning and capturing of data relating to the BRES survey.

This equates to approximately £40,000 per year.

The Senior Responsible Officer for BRES is a Mr Mike Prestwood.

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