My guest this week is Ed Humpherson, head of the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), the official watchdog for data and statistics in public policy. The OSR is an independent regulator tasked with upholding quality and transparency in UK statistics. Ed's background is in accounting and, before heading up the OSR, he worked at the National Audit Office, where he managed his work on economic and business affairs. Ed sits on various different boards, including that of the Regulatory Policy Institute and is a regular expert witness at the House of Commons. He knows a lot about the statistics landscape in the UK and in this episode I ask him about what has been going wrong and hear to his ideas about we can do to fix it.

Host: Georgina Sturge

URL: https://georginasturge.substack.com/

Made using Riverside.FM and Audacity.

Theme music 'Binary Dreams' by Georgina Sturge, made using Suno.

Episode ID: 1000739077461

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Release Date: 01/12/2025, 05:00:00