NRS is keen to reflect on lessons learned, including how the results that are now being published are received by users, and it is committed to setting those out upon the conclusion of the 2022 census programme in an evaluation report that will be laid before Parliament by the end of 2024.

I am sure that Mr Findlay will be delighted to learn that the Office for Statistics Regulation has awarded Scotland’s census output with national statistics designation, based on quality, good practice and comprehensiveness of the statistics. Achieving such a designation means that the expert independent UK regulator has confidence in the statistics that NRS has produced and that Scotland’s census forms an integral part of the statistical system in the United Kingdom.