Departmental Statistics

Mrs. Villiers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which statistics have been put forward by his Department for consideration to become new national statistics in each of the last five years; and how many statistics sets his Department has produced in total in each of the last five years.

Mrs. McGuire
The current list of National Statistics produced by the Department for Work and Pensions can be found on the National Statistics website at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about/ns_ons/nsproducts/default.asp

A list of changes to the scope of National Statistics (additions and withdrawals) in each of the last five years can be found in the relevant National Statistics annual report available on the National Statistics website at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=1051

In addition to National Statistics, the Department for Work and Pensions publishes a wide range of other numerical information in a variety of forms including other data produced from the management and administration of the Department and in research reports. There is no consistent definition of the term “statistics sets” and no centrally held information on the total published in each year on this basis.