Richard Alldritt

Richard Alldritt is the Head of Assessment. He was appointed by the Prime Minister and is the Authority's principal adviser on the scrutiny of official statistics.

Richard is a career statistician who has worked in a number of government organisations. He started his career in the Home Office and went on to run the strategic planning unit of what was then the Central Statistical Office (now ONS). In 1993 he was appointed Chief Statistician in the Welsh Office and then the Welsh Assembly Government.

Before joining the UK Statistics Authority, he was Chief Executive of the Statistics Commission for five years.