Accredited official statistics

Private registered providers (PRP) pre-release access list

Published 23 February 2021

Applies to England

Introduction

Equality of access to official statistics is a fundamental principle of statistical good practice and the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 restricts the privileged access to official statistics (including national statistics) in their final form before their release into the public domain. In accordance with this, we have removed pre-release access to our statistics in all but exceptional circumstances. Pre-release access does not include those individuals who:

  • produce and publicise the statistics (including those responsible for oversight of the process).
  • are asked to quality assure the statistics before their public release.

Pre-release access to 2019/20 statistics

No pre-release access was granted to these statistics.

However, we made some data (as outlined below) available to statisticians at MHCLG in order that they may be incorporated into other statistical products also releasing on 23 February 2021. This was to minimise the impact of the delay in publishing these statistics caused by our response to the coronavirus pandemic.

We also provided draft documentation to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) as part of our work to check our compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics for our local authority registered provider and combined registered provider data publications.

Internal access

For transparency, the list below provides details of the roles within RSH who participated in the production of these statistics or required them for operational activity. These individuals are all instructed to keep the statistics secure and under embargo until their release. As part of this they are explicitly requested to:

  • not disclose the statistics or any part of the publication to anyone not directly involved with the production.
  • not refer to any levels or trends in any materials (excepting where raw SDR data has be analysed separately for internal work on specific operational elements for regulatory purposes).
  • not use their access for personal gain or political advantage by exploiting their access to change the content, presentation or timing of publication of official statistics.

Due to the delay in the publication of the 2019/20 statistics the data were shared more extensively with internal colleagues for operational purposes than in previous years. This was essential to our regulatory activity and helped minimise the impact of the longer submission timescales offered as part of our coronavirus response.

RSH staff members

Role Purpose Date access granted
Head of data and statistics Data collection, analysis and statistics production From the start of data collection
Data project analysts and data analysts Data collection, analysis and statistics production From the start of data collection
Support officers Data collection, analysis and statistics production From the start of data collection
Regulatory assurance manager Incoming data quality assurance on group structures 10/11/2020
Director of strategy Quality assurance and oversight 08/01/2021
Assistant director of Business Intelligence Quality assurance and oversight 08/01/2021
Head of economics Quality assurance and analysis for operational purposes 08/01/2021
Head of rent regulation Analysis for operational purposes 14/01/2021
Economists and research analysts Analysis for operational purposes 14/01/2021
Head of Finance Analysis for operational purposes 22/01/2021
Finance and corporate services analyst Analysis for operational purposes 22/01/2021
Management accountant Analysis for operational purposes 22/01/2021
Registry and notifications supervisor Analysis for operational purposes 28/01/2021
Head of communications Preparation of release and announcement 23/01/2021
Regulation communications manager Preparation of release and announcement 23/01/2021
Assistant director of Policy and Communications Preparation of release and announcement 16/02/2021
Deputy chief executive Preparation of announcement 22/02/2021
Chief executive Preparation of announcement 22/02/2021

External

Role Purpose Date access granted
MHCLG, Statistician Data on sales for incorporation into the MHCLG social housing sales statistics (due for publication 23 February 2021) 07/01/2021
OSR, Statistics regulators For quality assurance and consideration of statistics badging for the registered provider social housing in England stock and rents statistics which draws on data published within these statistics 23/01/2021