You asked
The UK Statistics Authority has two main functions: running and oversight of the Office for National Statistics (ONS, its executive office) and independent scrutiny (monitoring and assessment) of all official statistics produced in the UK.
Can you please set out:
the money spent on (1) the ONS and its oversight and (2) on monitoring and assessment (ie each of the two functions) in each financial year since UKSA was established, and
the number of people employed in each of the two functions? Can the figures relate to the same point in time for each, and for each year and where possible at the same time point in each year?
We said
It is not possible to separately identify expenditure and the number of staff employed using the nomenclature "ONS and its oversight", and therefore to distinguish such expenditure and employee numbers using that term from "monitoring and assessment".
It is possible to separately identify those staff who have reported to the Director General for Regulation (previously the Head of Assessment) and whose time has been spent exclusively on the Monitoring and Assessment function and the costs associated with this. These figures are listed in the attached table (25.5 Kb Excel sheet) .
Please note that these figures do not capture all the costs associated with the Monitoring and Assessment function. For example, the cost of Non-Executive Director time and consideration via the Regulation Committee and the Authority Chair's interventions and support for the Authority Chair. This also does not include other corporate costs which cannot be seperately identified for example, Human Resources, Information Technology, Property and Services.
The expenditure for each financial year since 2008/9 for staff and associated costs working for the Director General for Regulation are recorded as follows, together with the Full-Time Equivalent staff numbers recorded for [that year or 31st March].