ONS Business Surveys

[trickywoo]

Anyone else got on a list for the ONS surveys recently?

I got a quarterly one last month and a monthly one today.

Apart from having to create an account and subsequently type in a 12 symbol code for each survey its not time consuming but it seems a waste of time. I have one employee (me) and a miniscule turnover which is randomly variable over the year. I have no idea what use that is to them.

They also seem to only communicate via letter. The one that arrived today is dated 26th June and has all kinds of dire legal warnings that I need to complete it by 10th July. What would happen if I was away?

Can you request to be removed from the list?

[MaxFromage]

You can't ask to be removed. It's random to a degree, but some companies get asked a lot more often than others. Legally you have to complete. I had one client who refused for a long time but I think they gave in eventually.

[48k]

Ive had scary looking ONS letters to my home address for a company I've never heard of. According to Companies House the company was dissolved in 2015. Makes you wonder how reliable their statistics are if they are sending stuff to non existent companies.