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Articles: Celebrating GAD's centenary, Centenary deep dive: GAD's role in social security, Managing contingent liabilities in the public sector.
GAD experts are the first to review the LGPS Northern Ireland 2016 actuarial valuation.
Statistical tests carried out by experts at GAD help ensure Premium Bond winners are chosen fairly and the latest Premium Bond draw used the new ERNIE 5.
The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) is 100 years old this year. The department is marking its centenary with the ‘GAD100’ programme where we will mark our successes and highlight our role in government.
The regular blog by the Government Actuary covering topical issues.
Government Actuary’s Department building client expertise.
Articles: Delivering value for money, Eradicating poverty, and other sustainable development goals, Genetic testing: insurance and the NHS.
Actuaries play an important role in helping the government both spend wisely and save money.
Articles: Managing fiscal risks openly and more effectively, GAD contributes data for mortality tables, Sharing mortality insights from experts.
Articles: Adding value to decision making in public services, the Macpherson review - progress after 5 years, March 2018 cross government event on wider reward.
The new hub at New Waverley, Edinburgh, which will deliver significant growth to the city by moving 2,900 civil servants into the city centre premises in 2020.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
A blog on the opportunities and challenges of the Analysis Function in government.
This note describes the system GAD has set up for transmission of personal data to and from our clients.
Articles: Report from the Analytical Function conference, Exploring the ONS "fuller picture" of pensions, A new financial asset class in the UK.
Previous editions of the Government Actuary's Department’s newsletter up to spring 2020. The new ‘special features’ can be found by clicking on ‘Related content’ below to the right.
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