Registers or official lists

Dyddiad y datganiad:
5 June 2015

You asked

  1. Would you please supply a short description of any registers or official lists required to be maintained by your department other than minor, temporary or clerical operational databases or excel based record sheets?

  2. If you do maintain any such registers or lists are these currently subject to a formal procurement process inviting tenders?

  3. If the answer to question 2 is yes, when are the next tenders due and where are they advertised?

We said

This request was sent to both the UK Statistics Authority and the Office for National Statistics but has been answered as one response

  1. We hold the inter-departmental business register (IDBR). This is a statistical business register of UK businesses. The data to populate is supplied to us under various legal provisions, mostly from HMRC. We have never put this out to tender. It is core to the statistical production process

    ONS is currently working on building an address register to underpin the next census in 2021 - but also as a frame for other statistical purposes. The address register is right at the centre of the census design as it has an impact on every census process. A high quality address list will be essential for delivery of internet access codes, to allow targeting of follow-up for non-responding households and to underpin estimation and the production of outputs following the census. Work is already underway to investigate options for developing a suitable register including all residential and communal addresses in England and Wales

    • The core of this register is all but certain to be the National Address Gazetteer (AddressBase) being maintained on behalf of Government by Geoplace which incorporates address information supplied by local government, Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey, the key sources used in 2011
    • The over-all approach will build on the 2011 design and experience but will be extended to include the use of more address-level intelligence from administrative, commercial and open-data sources. By knowing more about addresses it will be possible to better target resources by, for example, identifying those areas where we are likely to find vacant properties, second residences or access problems
    • A register of communal establishments (university accommodation, prisons, caravan parks, army camps, etc) will form an integral part of the address register – again drawing on the best national sources to ensure the proper enumeration of residents
    • ONS is not building a new national register but as far as possible will work with data suppliers to ensure improvements to, and improved links between, national sources. A key part of the work will be to assess the quality of such national sources and this will include some field address checking although the scale and nature if this checking are yet be determined

  2. The registers that we maintain are not subject to a formal procurement process inviting tenders

    ONS will be looking to engage with suppliers of address data and other geographic data over the next couple of years and may look to procure elements of the list. We are currently planning on running information events for potential suppliers later in 2015 or early 2016. We would be happy to add your name to the list of invitees for any such event

  3. N/A

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