Please register, indicating whether you wish to attend in person, in Birmingham, or virtually.

Since 13 December 2021, when the Government statistical service subnational data strategy launched, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has significantly accelerated progress in improving its local data, statistics, and analysis offering.

We are now inviting you to an event, in partnership with Birmingham City Council and Core Cities UK, where we will showcase all our new and in-development local products and services. We are keen to celebrate what has been achieved so far and hear about how our key users across Local Government and beyond use our local data and statistics.

With the publication of HM Government’s Levelling Up white paper in February 2022 and the release of ONS’s subnational statistics work plan in May, ONS has committed to supporting local policy and decision makers by improving the granularity and timeliness of our statistics, expanding into new data sources, improving our visualisation tools, and supporting our users through Explore Subnational Statistics and the ONS Local analytical advisory service.

Please join us for presentations including ONS’s new local data, statistics, and analytical releases, as well as a chance to hear from a panel of key people from ONS, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, and local government partners.

Agenda

10am Registration

10:30am Chair's welcome - Libby Richards, Deputy Director, ONS Local and Devolved Liaison Officers, Office for National Statistics

10.35am Opening address - Deborah Cadman, Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council

10.40am ONS subnational strategy – one year on – Sam Beckett, Second Permanent Secretary, Office for National Statistics

10.55am Regional GVA – Andrea Lacey, Head of Subnational Statistics Development, ONS and Andrew Banks, Lead Data Scientist, Data Science Campus, ONS

11.20am Q&A

11.30am Break

11.45am How a place is using ONS data – Richard Brooks, Director of Strategy, Equality & Partnerships, Birmingham City Council

12.20pm Lunch

1.20pm Chair Afternoon welcome – Stephen Jones, Director of Core Cities UK

1.25pm Panel session: How can better evidence improve decision making?

Chair: Stephen Jones, Director of Core Cities UK

• Paul Swinney, Centre for Cities

• Tom Smith, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

• Emma Hickman, Deputy Director, Subnational Statistics and Analysis

• Rebecca Riley, Associate Professor for Enterprise, Engagement, and Impact, Citi-REDI

2.10pm Q&A

2.25pm Break

2.40pm Night-time Economy, Joseph Collais, Office for National Statistics and Employment growth - towns and out of towns, Richard Prothero, Office for National Statistics

3pm Q&A

3.10pm ONS Local – Libby Richards, Deputy Director, ONS Local and Devolved Liaison Officers, Office for National Statistics

3.25pm Closing remarks - Mike Keoghan, Deputy National Statistician and Director General for the Economic, Social and Environment Group, Office for National Statistics

3.30pm Close 

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact us via ONSLocaldataconference@ons.gov.uk

ONS local data conference