Review calls for £10m overhaul of the Office for National Statistics

‘Deep-seated’ issues within UK’s main statistics body call for radical measures and retrospective revision of past figures, says report

The UK’s main statistics body needs a £10m overhaul and its top role split in two after a series of management failings and errors that have plagued the organisation for several years, a scathing report has found.

The Devereux Review on performance and culture of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found “deep-seated” issues that called for radical measures and warned of the likelihood that past statistics would need to retrospectively revised.