Welcome to our dedicated consultation and participation area.
Here you can take part in consultations, user engagements, and other participation activities. Sharing your views helps ensure our statistics reflect society, continue to be relevant, and meet users’ needs.
You can find our open and closed participation activities below, or search for a consultation or user engagement activity by keyword or interest. You can also read our responses to closed participation activities by visiting Our response to your feedback.
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Thank you for getting involved. Giving your views helps us produce better statistics for the public good.
If you have any questions or comments on the participation activities, please contact the address listed in the overview section of an activity, or external.affairs@ons.gov.uk.
Open participation activities
ONS annual stakeholder satisfaction survey
At the Office for National Statistics (ONS), we are committed to delivering trustworthy, independent, high-quality statistics that underpin the UK’s most critical economic and societal decisions and inform the public. Our annual stakeholder survey aims to understand your satisfaction with and use of our statistics, as well as how effectively we engage and collaborate with you. This survey uses the term ‘statistics’ to include any data, analysis and statistics produced by the ONS....
Household Cost Indices user needs
17 December 2025 update Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on the Household Costs Indices (HCIs). Your responses are helping us shape future improvements to the indices, including how they are presented and published. We are currently reviewing all input and will share updates on next steps when they are available. The engagement remains open, so please continue to share your views. The Household Costs Indices (HCIs) measure the change in consumer prices...
Our response to your feedback
Find out more about what we’ve heard and how that can help inform future plans.
Future of population and migration statistics
On 17 June 2025 the UK Statistics Authority (the Authority), on the advice of the Acting National Statistician, made a recommendation to government on the future of population and migration statistics in England and Wales.
Stakeholder satisfaction survey
We have now published the results of our latest stakeholder satisfaction survey. Our findings show that 92% of respondents consider our statistics to fully or partially meets their needs. The survey also highlighted area for development, including improved website usability and better planning and priortisation of data releases.
Admin-based population estimates
We have now published an update to our user engagement. We plan to enhance our publications by refining statistical bulletins with a greater focus on local-level changes, developing impoved visualisation tools for comparing areas, and creating better signposting to quality and methods information.
Closed participation activities
Government Statistical Service Harmonisation: Consultation on user needs for additional response options in a future ethnicity standard
This consultation is also available in Welsh . 5 February 2026 This consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part in this consultation. We will begin analysing the responses and will publish a consultation update at a later date. 5 December 2025 Please note: An omission was identified in our “Harmonisation Ethnicity consultation document” and on this information page, which implied that the ethnicity question response options for Welsh...
Census 2031 topic consultation
This consultation is also available in Welsh . 5 February 2026 This consultation has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part in this consultation. We will begin analysing the responses and will publish a consultation update at a later date. About the Census 2031 topic consultation Information about the population of England and Wales is vital for the functioning of our society. It informs decisions about public services and helps us understand the...
Price Index of Private Rents user engagement
The Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) measures the change in price of renting residential property from private landlords. The PIPR is published as a series of price indices and levels covering the United Kingdom (UK), England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, English regions, local authorities in England and Wales, and broad rental market areas in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) brought together private rental price statistics by...
Past participation activities
Participation activities held before November 2016 can be found on the National Archives.