Welsh Statistical Liaison Committee, 4 June 2026: agenda

10:00 Item 1: Welcome, introductions and apologies (Steph Howarth, Welsh Government)

10:05 Item 2 (Steph Howarth, Welsh Government): 

• Note of last meeting (WSLC (2026 06) 01)
• Update on action points (WSLC (2026 06) 01A)
• Statistics Wales quarterly update (WSLC (2026 06) 02)
• Demography update (WSLC (2026 06) 03)
• Welsh Local Government Association update (WSLC (2026 06) 04)

10:25 Item 3: Data audit of local government (Rob Pascoe and Jack Roberts, Welsh Local Government Association)

10:45 Item 4: Consultation on proposed changes to Welsh Government statistics outputs (Luned Jones, Welsh Government)

11:00 Item 5: StatsWales latest developments and roadmap (Rich Davies, Welsh Government)

11:30 Comfort break

11:40 Item 6: Population and census statistics update (Nigel Henretty, Office for National Statistics and Martin Parry, Welsh Government)

12:10 Item 7: Ethnicity harmonised standard (Joy Preece, Office for National Statistics)

12:30 Item 8: Estimates of housing needs (Will Parrott, Welsh Government)

12:55 Any other business

13:00 Close

The next meeting will be held on Thursday 8 October 2026.