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<p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question of 14 March is below and attached.</p><p><strong><br></strong>The
Lord Clement-Jones CBE <strong><br></strong></p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A
0PW</p><p> </p><p>22 March 2024</p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Clement-Jones</p><p> </p><p>As
National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding
to your Parliamentary Question asking, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe
on 19 February (HL2184), how many of the 20 Integrated Data Service (IDS) projects
and 600 Secure Research Service (SRS) projects referred to in that answer have a lead
researcher whose primary affiliation is given as (1) academic, (2) central government,
(3) commercial, (4) local government, (5) non-commercial, and (6) the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) (HL3276).</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Of the monthly average of 600 projects
running in the SRS during 2023, 382 were led by those affiliated with the academic
community. There were no academic lead projects within the Integrated Data Service
for the same period.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>For the same period, the number of projects
led by central government on the SRS was 43; these include agencies, public bodies,
devolved administrations, ministerial and non-ministerial and public research bodies.
The number of central government lead projects on the IDS was 10.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The
number of commercial lead projects on SRS projects was 81; these include private sector
organisations, primarily think tanks and consultancies. There were no lead researchers
within this affiliation attached to the 20 IDS projects.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The
number of local government affiliated lead projects in SRS was 6. There were no lead
researchers within this affiliation attached to the 20 IDS projects.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The
number of non-commercial affiliated lead projects in SRS was 69; these include those
categorised as third sector/voluntary. There were no lead researchers within this
affiliation attached to the 20 IDS projects.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The number of
Office for National Statistics lead researchers on SRS projects was 19. The subsequent
number for the 20 IDS projects was 10.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>We have recently communicated
the timetable for the transition to IDS to our SRS users and over the next year, the
IDS will scale its data at pace and onboard a range of users from across all the aforementioned
user groups in SRS, leading to a more varied distribution of user types accessing
projects on the IDS. The IDS has an ever-growing list of prospective use cases that
it will onboard throughout 2024 as the service scales its data catalogue and analytical
tooling capabilities.</p><p> </p><p>In light of your interest in the IDS and to provide
additional context around the SRS and IDS figures in this and our previous responses,
I would like to personally offer our team to come and showcase the service, discuss
future prospects around the SRS and IDS and answer any further questions you have.
We would be delighted to attend a location at your convenience, if this is an attractive
proposition.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p>Sir Ian Diamond</p><p> </p>
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