The Statistics User Forum is pressing for the establishment of
a permanent and definitive national address register, updated on an
ongoing basis.
Such a register is being developed in Scotland. However, while
a register is being developed for England and Wales for the 2011
Census, its use will be tightly restricted to the Census and it
will not be maintained thereafter.
News
24 August 2009 In a
letter to
John Healey MP, Association of
Regional Observatories chair, Rosie Paskins, asks the Government to
"fully review the business case for a national address
register
4 August 2009 In
a
letter to John Healey MP, the chairman of Ordnance Survey
(OS), Sir Rob Margetts, sets out OS's views.
28 July 2009 In
a
letter to John Healey MP, the chair of the Improvement and
Development Agency (IDeA), Councillor Ian Swithenbank, expresses
interest of IDeA in "finding a route to provide a single national
address register as a public good".
21 July 2009 In a press release the Demographics User
Group expresses its "strong satisfaction with the House of
Commons Public Administration Select Committee's support for the UK
Statistics Authority's call for a single regularly updated national
address register"
14 July
2009 A letter
(*.pdf, external link) from the chair of the Public Administration
Select Committee, Tony Wright MP, to government minister, John
Healey MP, sets out the committee's support for the call for a
"single definitive regularly updated national address
register"
9 July 2009 In a
statement (*.doc, 97kb) the Royal Statistical Society and the
Statistics User Forum welcome the support of Sir Michael Scholar
for a national address register saying "An accurate
register of addresses is a vital piece of information that
underpins the nation's knowledge around a range of issues such as
how public services are managed, including local taxation and
emergency services".
8 July 2009 In a
letter (*.pdf, external link) from the UK Statistics Authority
chair, Sir Michael Scholar, to government minister, John Healey,
the need for a national address register is set out.
10 June 2009 In
its
submission (*.doc, 44kb) to the Public Administration Select
Committee inquiry, Progress towards the 2011 Census, the
Statistics User Forum highlights the case for a permanent address
register
10 June 2009 In
its
submission (*.doc, 54kb) to the Public Administration Select
Committee inquiry, Progress towards the 2011 Census, the
Royal Statistical Society highlights the case for a permanent
address register
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