1. Country report – United Kingdom (ONS)
Task Force on the integration of statistics and geospatial information – item 6 of the agenda

2. Legal Context 2007 Statistics and Registration Services Act(
1998 Data Protection Act (
1920 Census Act (
Open Government License (
Administrative Data

3. Organisational Set UK Statistics Agency Office for National Statistics
Government Statistical Service
Devolved Administrations
(ONS, National Records – Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)
Mapping Agencies
(Ordnance Survey and Land Property Services)

4. Data Sources Geographic Data
BoundaryLine – OS annual product with the definitive administrative geometries for statistical outputs
Census – Used to maintain the statistical geographies on a decannial basis
AddressBase – Definitive address product used for lowest level georeferencing. Created as a response to the Census Address Register
Mapping, aerial imagery etc – Data provided under a public sector mapping agreement (PSMA) that consolidated earlier versions spread out across central government, local government and blue light services

5. Data Sources Statistical Census (current) Surveys (current)
Administrative Data (proposed)
Big Data (proposed)

6. Technical Situation Open Geography Linked Data Web Data Access
Data.gov.uk

7. https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/geoportal/

14. Production Processes and Products
Geography Policy for National Statistics
Statistical Geographies
Code History Database
National Statistics Postcode Lookup
Standard Area Measurements
Mapping Services
Customer Services
Research

15. European Harmonisation
INSPIRE – Data specification development and the lead for the UK implementation of the statistics themes
Open Geography – the UK implementation of the INSPIRE Statistical Units theme
Grid Products – Contribution to the GEOSTAT 1C project to look at producing grid based data as a regular output
NUTS – Provision of data to Eurostat on the NUTS geographies
GGIM – Currently a watching brief on GGIM but given the OS leadership on this will become more heavily involved with the implementation of GGIM Europe

16. Priorities
Promote the use of service delivery through Open Geography and linked data
Release of an address database as open data to support and standardise the lowest level of geography
Use of the ONS geographic policy and standards as a framework of best practice at the European level