Flaws in ONS stats undermine government pension policy

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Government departments face a huge credibility gap in their efforts to reform the pensions system af...

Government departments face a huge credibility gap in their efforts to reform the pensions system after a report by the Office for National Statistics pinpointed serious deficiencies in the statistics being used to shape policy. The Review of ONS Pension Contributions Statistics does not say that there is a complete lack of raw data, but does point out that the methods of extracting the figures needed are not meeting current requirements, and make it impossible to build policy on the back of stats. There is no way the government can understand the pensions industry at present ...

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