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One of the senior civil service employees in the government was assigned to reach the bottom of the problems related to the data produced by the National Statistics Office, as anxiety grows in Westminster about the reliability of the numbers used to direct the British economy.

The request for McFAFAN, Minister of the Council of Ministers, has a little official cat to consider a performance Ons Amid fears that Chancellor Rachel Reeves has left a blind flying as she puts her plans for the economy.

“It is believed that it is a clear problem,” said one of the minister’s colleagues. “It raised it with the permanent secretary (a few) and said it’s very important that we have data that we can count on.”

Little and her colleagues were asked to make options to make possible government measures after a series of error detection in official economic indicators, according to people who have knowledge of their briefing. Among the ideas on the table is independent review, although decisions are not made.

Last week, Dame Meg Hillier, Chairman of the Selecter Treasury Select Committee, wrote to Sir Ian Diamond, the National Statistical, to highlight the “disturbing errors and delay” in some statistics groups.

One of Reeves ally said: “There is frustration because we are making economic decisions when the data is wrong. It is a little problem, with a moderate phrase.”

ONS is wrestling with problems with some of the most sensitive data on the market, which makes it difficult for UK policymakers to direct the economy. Anxiety focuses on the collapse of the main workforce survey, which supports job data, but ONS has found problems in other parts of its production.

The data cemetery has been commented on the publication of the prices of producers who help in the gross domestic product account, and it has been criticized for “mixed economic thinking” by the Institute of Financial Studies on the method of re -evaluating the wealth of retirement.

The Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England confirmed this month the need for “high -quality and reliable data through a full set of labor and employment market statistics”, after the ruler Andrew Billy famous Quality of job numbers.

The Statistical Office list, the UK’s Statistical Authority’s arm, which oversees the country’s statistical system, plans to publish a temporary report in April on a systematic review of the economic statistics launched last year.

An official close to McFadden said he was concerned about issues on ONS. The source said: “It is necessary to have reliable data and that ons is vital.”

In her message, Hillier, head of statistics, told “she is concerned about the impact of reliable labor market statistics and whether there are problems with other economic data.”

She added: “The latest worrying and delaying errors in the data of commercial data price and data index data will expand concerns about the merit of confidence and the accuracy of economic statistics available to policy makers and other users.”

Hillier asked to update nature and the causes of errors specified in producers’ price numbers, as well as ONS response to IFS criticism of wealth numbers.

She also requested more information about problems in commercial data after I put ONS on March 13, a mistake in numbers dating back to 2023.

On Friday, ONS issued updates for her commercial data after examining this problem. Among the problems, the errors in the data provided by HM Revenue, customs related to goods ’imports, and the error in system processing services numbers.

However, the Reviews For the 2023 and 2024 numbers trade did not affect the broader GDP data.

The Cabinet Office refused to comment. ONS FT told “she is still focusing on producing the highest quality statistics for the public interest and is committed to the continuous improvement of our methods and methods.”