Statistical release calendar 2025: Pre-release access lists

Published: 5 December 2024
Last updated: 13 November 2025

Statistical release calendar 2025: pre-release access lists

In accordance with the conditions for pre-release access to Official Statistics set out in the DCMS statement of compliance, named officials can receive privileged early access to Official Statistics.

Pre-release access is granted at 9.30am on the date listed, the day before the Official Statistics is published.

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January

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Adults Media Literacy Tracker   17 January 2025  

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Media Literacy
  • Policy Advisor
  • Policy Advisor
  • Research Lead, Security and Online Harms
  • Analyst
Telecommunications Market Data Update Q3 2024   22 January 2025  

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Head of Broadband Strategy and Engagement
  • Head of Fixed Telecoms Markets
  • Head of DI spending Strategy
  • Head of Digital Infrastructure Investment
  • Head of Mobile Markets and Strategy Implementation team
  • Head of Mobile Markets
  • Head of Wireless, Security and Resilience Telecoms Analysis
  • Economic Advisor - Spectrum and Consumer Policy
  • Economic Advisor
Children and Parents' Media Literacy tracker   28 January 2025

 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Information Resilience Policy
  • Head of Media Literacy
  • Media Literacy Policy Advisor
  • Media Literacy Policy Advisor
  • Senior Economist
  • Analyst
Cross Platform Media Tracker   30 January 2025   None

February

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Telecoms and Pay-TV Complaints Q3 2024    12 February 2025  

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Economic Advisor, Spectrum and Consumer policy
Affordability of Communication services Q4 2024   6 February 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Policy Advisor, Consumer Protection
  • Economic Advisor - Spectrum and Consumer Policy
  • Economic Advisor
  • Head of Broadband Policy and Engagement
Reasons to Complain Tracker   25 February 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Consumer Protection
  • Senior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer
Customer Satisfaction Tracker   25 February 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Consumer Protection
  • Senior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer
Complaints Handling Tracker   25 February 2025 

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Consumer Protection
  • Senior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum and Consumer

March

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
PSM Tracker   12 March 2025  None
Residential Postal Tracker   28 March 2025  

Department for Business and Trade:

  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Secretary, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
SME Business Postal Tracker   28 March 2025  

Department for Business and Trade:

  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Secretary, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
Experiences of suspicious calls, texts and app messages   17 March 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Head of Mobile Markets
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Mobile Markets
  • Senior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum, and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Wireless Infrastructure, Spectrum, and Consumer
Children's online 'user ages' Wave 4   28 March 2025  

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Director, Security & Online Harms
  • Deputy Director, Strategy and Analysis, Security & Online Harms
  • Head of SOH AI Strategy
  • Head of User Safety Policy
  • Policy Lead, Child Safety
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Child Safety
  • Senior Economist, Security and Online Harms – Analysis
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Comms
  • Policy Advisor, Age Assurance and Child Safety
  • Head of Regulatory Policy, Information Resilience
  • Head of International and Strategy

April

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Telecommunications Market Data Update Q4 2024   9 April 2025 None
Online Experiences Tracker   15 April 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:
  • Director, Security and Online Harms (SOH)
  • Deputy Director, Online Harms Regulation
  • Deputy Director, Online Harms Strategy
  • Deputy Director, Information Resilience and Public Safety
  • Deputy Director, Information Threats and Security
  • Head of Information Resilience Policy
  • Head of User Safety
  • Head of International and Strategy
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Adult Online Safety
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Child Online Safety
  • Head of Online Safety Act Implementation Team
  • Head of Funding, Online Safety Act Implementation Team
  • Senior Economist, SOH Analysis
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, SOH Analysis
  • Research Lead, SOH Analysis
  • Economic Apprentice, SOH Analysis
VSP Tracker wave 7   29 April 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Funding, Online Safety Act Implementation Team 
  • Policy Advisor, Online Safety Act Implementation Team
Video-on-demand survey   29 April 2025
Telecoms and Pay-TV Complaints Q4 2024   30 April 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Economist, Strategic and Economic Analysis
  • Junior Economist, Strategic and Economic Analysis

May

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
News Consumption Survey   7 May 2025 None
News Consumption Survey- Teens data   7 May 2025 None
Television and on-demand programme services: data reporting provision of access services for the full calendar year 2024   16 May 2025 None
Podcast Survey   20 May 2025 None
Audio Survey   20 May 2025 None

June

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
BBC Performance Tracker   9 June 2025 None
BBC Children's Performance Tracker   9 June 2025 None
Technology Tracker   17 June 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:
  • Head of Strategic and Economic Analysis, Digital Infrastructure Analysis Team
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer
  • Senior Economist, Security and Online Harms Analysis
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, Security and Online Harms Analysis
  • Research Lead, Security and Online Harms Analysis
  • Research Apprentice, Security and Online Harms Analysis
Affordability of Communication services Q1 2025   18 June 2025
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Head of Digital Inclusion Connectivity Policy
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms
  • Policy Advisor, Consumer Protection
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer

July

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
List of channels required to provide access services in 2025   10 July 2025 None
Number of hours broadcast by public television broadcasters (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Commercial broadcast television revenues and spend (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Number of hours broadcast by the multichannel sector (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Number of commercial radio services broadcasting (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Commercial radio revenues (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Community radio revenues and expenses (within the Communications Market Report)   16 July 2025 None
Telecommunications Market Data Update Q1 2025   23 July 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:
 

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Head of Markets
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Fixed Telecoms Markets
  • Head of Mobile Markets
  • Head of Coverage and Reporting
  • Head of Wireless Coverage and Reporting
  • Head of Strategic and Economic Analysis, Digital Infrastructure

Analysis Team
 

  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy
Proportion of public service broadcaster network hours made outside London   29 July 2025 None
Public Service Broadcasting Network Compliance Report   29 July 2025 None
Made outside London programme titles register: description of TV programmes produced outside London   29 July 2025 None

August

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Telecoms and Pay-TV Complaints Q1 2025 6 August 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer 
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy 
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy

September

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access

October

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Experience of parcel delivery survey   8 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade:
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Office, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Private Office, Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Infrastructure
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
Online Experiences Tracker 13 October 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Director, Security and Online Harms (SOH)
  • Deputy Director, Online Harms Policy and Regulation
  • Deputy Director, Online Harms Strategy and Analysis
  • Acting Deputy Director, Information Resilience and Public Safety
  • Deputy Director, Information Threats and Security
  • Head of Information Resilience Policy
  • Head of User Safety
  • Head of International and Strategy
  • Head of Child Online Safety
  • Head of Online Safety Act Implementation Team
  • Head of Funding, Online Safety Act Implementation Team
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Adult Online Safety
  • Senior Economist, SOH Analysis
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, SOH Analysis
  • Research Lead, SOH Analysis
  • Secretary of State, DSIT
  • Minister for AI and Online Safety, DSIT
  • Private Secretary to the Secretary of State, DSIT
  • Private Secretary to the Minister for AI and Online Safety, DSIT
  • Permanent Secretary, DSIT
  • Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, DSIT
  • Director General for Digital Technology and Infrastructure
  • Private Secretary to the Director General for Digital Technology and Infrastructure
  • Deputy Director for Digital and Tech Analysis
Telecommunications Market Data Update Q2 2025 15 October 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Head of Markets
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Fixed Telecoms Markets
  • Head of Mobile Markets
  • Head of Wireless Coverage and Reporting
  • Head of Strategic and Economic Analysis, Digital Infrastructure Analysis Team
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy

Television access services: Report for the first six months of 2025  

20 October 2025
Residential Postal Tracker   21 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade:
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Office, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Private Office, Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Infrastructure
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
SME Business Postal Tracker   21 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade:
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Office, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Private Office, Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Infrastructure
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
Post volumes and revenues (within the Communications Market Report)   21 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade:
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Office, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Private Office, Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Infrastructure
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
Post volumes and revenues   21 October 2025
Department for Business and Trade:
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Private Office, Permanent Secretary
  • Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Private Office, Director(s) General, Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform
  • Director, Consumer & Competition Policy
  • Deputy Director, Competition Policy
  • G6, Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Policy
  • Head of Postal Infrastructure
  • Senior Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Policy Adviser, Postal Policy
  • Economic Advisor, Consumers and Competition
  • Assistant Economist, Consumers and Competition
Telecoms and Pay-TV Complaints Q2 2025   29 October 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology:

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Team
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer Policy

November

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Core Switching Tracker   4 November 2025
Affordability of Communication services Q3 2025   13 November 2025

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • Head of Telecoms Consumer
  • Head of Telecoms Consumer Policy
  • Head of Digital Inclusion Connectivity Policy
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Policy Advisor, Telecoms Consumer
  • Senior Economist, Markets and Consumer
  • Junior Economist, Markets and Consumer

December

Official Statistics Date pre-release access granted Officials granted access
Pricing trends for communications services in the UK