Transport, Travel and Tourism

The National Statistics Quality Review Programme has been introduced to help ensure that National Statistics and other official statistical outputs are fit for purpose and that there is a process to support the continuing improvement in the quality and value of these outputs. It is a key component for quality assuring National Statistics as set out in the Government White Paper "Building Trust in Statistics"....more...

Links to the published Quality Review Reports for this theme will be added to this page as the reviews are completed. The National Statistician's response and any departmental plans so far reported for the implementation of recommendations will also be placed here.

NSQR Series Report No.36 - Review of Domestic Waterborne Freight in the UK
Released 7 September 2004 - Published by Department for Transport (DfT)

• Letter from the Statistician - DfT
• Response from the National Statistician

• Introduction
• Report

NSQR Series Report No.33 - Review of Tourism Statistics
Released 28 June 2004 - Published by Department for Culture Media, and Sport (DCMS)

• Letter from the Chief Statistician - DCMS
• Response from the National Statistician

• Report
• Appendices 1 & 2
• Appendices 3 & 4
• Appendix 5
• Appendices 6 & 7

View the DCMS website

NSQR Series Report No.30 - Review of Road Freight Statistics
Released 15 March 2004 - Published by Department for Transport

• Letter from Department for Transport to the National Statistician
• Response from the National Statistician



• Report (inc. Implementation (Action) Plan)
• Annexes
• Q&A Brief

NSQR Series Report No.22: Review of Bus, Coach and Light Rail Statistics
Released 6 August 2003

• Letter from Department for Transport to the National Statistician
• Response from the National Statistician



• Report (inc. Implementation Plan) (Updated 31 October 2003)
• Q&A Brief

View the Project Initiation Document

National Statistics Quality Review - National Travel Survey
Statement from Len Cook, National Statistician (3 May 2001)

"I am pleased to announce the release by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) of the quality review of the National Travel Survey (NTS). This is the third of the reviews foreseen in the White Paper 'Building Trust in Statistics', and the first to be conducted outside the Office for National Statistics."

"The review has shown that the NTS is of good quality and is fit for its purpose of monitoring trends in personal travel."

"NTS customers are generally satisfied with the current survey and want the NTS to continue in much the same form as at present. However, the demand for detailed information on personal travel has been increasing, leading to the need to increase the NTS sample size. DETR Ministers have agreed to a significant increase in the survey sample size from 2002, funded under the 2000 Spending Review."

"Customers' needs and the methodology review have highlighted a number of quality improvements, and a programme of work is now in place to implement these."

For further information contact:

Jacob Wilcock (DETR): +44 (0)20 7944 4449 for NTS specific enquiries.

Review of the National Travel Survey

• NTS Report Precis
• Q&A for NTS review
• NTS Report
• Annex A
• Annex B
• Annex C
• Annex D
• Annex E
• Annex F
• Annex G

For all other general enquiries contact info@statistics.gov.uk

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This page last revised: Tuesday, 7 September 2004