Opportunities and benefits of strategic partnerships Heather Savory

Opportunities and benefits of strategic partnerships Heather Savory Deputy National Statistician and Director General for Data Capability heather. savory@ons. gov. uk @Saturn. SA 4 HS 1

Data Sharing Gateways via the SRSA S 42 - allows the Registrar General to disclose civil registration data to the Board for any of its functions S 42 (4) - allows the Board to disclosure civil registration to certain Health Bodies for statistical purposes Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 – as amended by the Digital Economy Act 2017 S 43 S 44 - allows disclosure of English and Welsh Health registration data to the Board for the production of population statistics. This is demographic data only, nothing about health. S 45 - allows HMRC to disclose any of the information it holds for its functions to the Board for any of their functions z S 45 A - Creates a permissive gateway for all public authorities to share their information with the Board, and overcomes all restrictions on disclosure other than the DPA S 45 B - Gives the Board the power to require disclosure of information from a Crown Body, provided it does not breach the DPA S 45 C S 45 D - Gives the Board the power to require personal information from public authorities and private undertakings, with failure to do so a criminal offence, provided it does not breach the DPA HS 2

Other Data Sharing Gateways Statistics of Trade Act 1947 S 9 STA allows information collected under the Act to be disclosed to an OGD for any of their functions, if a minister so directs Regulations made under S 251 NHSA permit the use of controlled patient information in research approved by the So. S National Health Service Act 2006 S 58 FA allows HMRC to disclose PAYE information to the Board for the purposes of running a statistical survey z S 91 VATA allows HMRC to disclose VAT information to the Board for maintaining a statistical business register or running a survey Finance Act 1969 S 122 AA of the Social Survey Administration Act allows HMRC to disclose to the Board information relating to benefits S 3 of the Agricultural Statistics Act 1977 allows DEFRA to share with the Board agricultural information, for any of the Boards functions Vat Act 1994 HS Common law powers. All ministerial departments, unless prevented from doing so by legislation, may share information with the Board without the need for an explicit legal gateway. However many departments are reluctant to do so. 3

Data we hold and how we use it Government Information Infrastructure Local Government Central Government Census Registers/Core Reference Data Citizens Business Data Catalogue Metadata Security / Access rights Analysis Open Data z Citizen-facing Services Policy Design /Efficiency Business-facing Services HS HS Academic Research Statistics/Economic Analysis Innovation 4

Our Data Estate Statistical services: Statistical production: Match, link, annonymise data: internal and 3 rd party use Secure, in-house access ONS staff Data Statistical research: Working in partnerships, projectbased access HS 3 rd party disclosure: Accredited research and statistics 5

Sources & Supplies of Data Barriers to sharing • Perceived data quality • Competitive advantage • Customer concerns • Culture • Technological/security challenges HS Working with data partners • Identify relevant data • Understand available data & uses • Partnership agreement • Supplier collaboration (metadata/feasibility/test data) • Specification- legal basis, data environment, any publication requirements • On-going relationship when data received transparency of use, shared insight, potential for further data 6

Benefits: sharing data through partnerships Collaboration Multi-Sector z Capability Building Benchmarking HS 7

Issues we consider Security Data Use/Ethics Access z Quality HS 8

Working in partnership • Collaborations with national, international and local government • Agreements with multiple external partners including universities, research institutes and international statistical institutions z • International partners eg Netherlands, Rwanda, Canada, New Zealand & Norway • Ph. D programmes, Centres for Doctoral Training & Ph. D cofunding with partners • Projects for MSc students in Data Science • Commercial businesses – market engagement with Barclaycard, Pw. C … HS 9

ONS Case Study: Global Platform z HS 10

Data science projects with impact across ONS Measuring the urban forest Superfast GDP indicator from VAT turnover Mobile phone data for commuter flows (Big Data) Using images to improve data on local environment £ 1 Bn value trees in urban areas (air pollution, health, wellbeing) But poor data at local level on tree & urban greenery DEFRA, ONS Natural Capital team, UN Global Pulse Early indicator of economic growth, using company-level VAT returns Rapid identification of GDP growth changes can inform responsive economic policy ONS National Accounts, Bank of England, HMz Treasury Commuter flow estimates from Vodafone mobile phone data (residence to workplace) Fine-grained estimates, by time of day, mode of transport Good match to Census commuting data – potential for improved & timely understanding of economic areas & flows ONS. Local Authorities. BEIS. DCLG HS 11

Supporting innovative data science at government scale Delivering in collaboration Projects – apply learning & expertise Analytical Function DECA and Data Advisory Board Data science accelerator mentoring Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technical and data infrastructure (ONS and government) Digital Economy Act Data ethics – NSDEC z Data as a Service Technical infrastructure – storage and compute tools Data reuse for users – Secure Research Services Building & supporting capability Government Data Science Partnership Data Analytics Apprenticeships MSc Data Analytics for Government Ph. D programme & placements Training for departments & teams HS 12

Partnering with academia – building capability • Cross-govt training & train-the-trainers • Apprenticeships in Data Analytics • MSc Data Analytics for Government z • Continuous Professional Development • Data Science Accelerator and ONS Data Science Academy mentoring • STEM Ambassadors • Co-funded & co-supervised Ph. D placements and programmes HS 13

Thank you Heather Savory Deputy National Statistician & Director General for Data Capability heather. savory@ons. gov. uk @Saturn. SA 4 HS 14