With Parliament now returned post-conference season, our CEO Dr Sarah Cumbers and President Dr Andrew Garrett have written to the newly elected chairs of three key select committees – the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) and the Education Committee – outlining the parts of our work that are relevant to their committee’s remits.
The letter to Chi Onwurah, chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, outlines our work around AI, including the creation of our new AI taskforce. The letter includes our asks of government for more investment in open-source, the development of AI evaluation methodologies and for the establishment of a public register of cases where an AI tool is used in the public sector.
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Our letter to Helen Hayes, new chair of the Education Committee, welcomes the recently launched curriculum review and stresses the need to equip young people with the relevant data skills. Given the shortage currently in the UK, it also proposes several incentives to increase the number of qualified maths teachers.
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PACAC is the select committee responsible for overseeing the UK’s statistical system. In our letter to Simon Hoare, the committee’s new chair, we highlight two important issues: the need to remove barriers to data sharing between government departments in order to improve public service delivery, as well as our hope that the committee, as they have done previously, will engage with our campaign on the need to end pre-release access to official statistics.
Read our briefing on the use of data for informed, transparent decision-making