FAI Director appointed to new UK Statistics Authority committee

Professor Mairi Spowage, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, has been appointed as a committee member of the new National Statistician’s Committee for Advice on Standards for Economic Statistics (NSCASE), which has been set up by the UK Statistics Authority.

Following the UK’s exit from the European statistical system, the government is strengthening governance arrangements for official economic statistics, focussing on the ways statistics are produced and assured.

At the centre of this new governance framework will be the new National Statistician’s Committee for Advice on Standards for Economic Statistics (NSCASE). NSCASE will ensure the processes for influencing and adopting international statistical standards are of a high standard. NSCASE will support the National Statistician in his decisions about the statistical guidance the UK will follow in the future. The advice NSCASE provides to the National Statistician will span the full range of domains in economic statistics, including the National Accounts, fiscal statistics, prices, trade and the balance of payments and labour market statistics.

As well as Mairi, the committee will include:

David Caplan, Head of The Essex Centre for Data Analytics and former Head of Analytics and Research at CIPFA; Robert Heath, former Deputy Director of the IMF Statistics Department; Paul Mizen, Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Nottingham; Rebecca Riley, Professor of Practice in Economics at King’s Business School; Nick Vaughan, a macroeconomist and special advisor on innovative finance to the Education Commission; and the Committee’s Chair is Professor Martin Weale, Professor of Economics at King's Business School.