Competent Person Self-Certification Schemes Statistics

Data, updated every 6 months, on membership numbers of competent person schemes and the number of building jobs they have carried out. 1. Registered membership is by business, not by individual. Many businesses will consist of more than one competent individual so the total number of competent individuals will be higher than the registered membership figures. 2. Schemes are authorised by the type of work that their registered members carry out. However, in many schemes, particularly those dealing with the installation of heating, hot water service, air-conditioning, mechanical ventilation and plumbing systems, registered members do more than one type of work. To prevent as far as possible double counting of registered members or notifications to local authorities (which often encompass more than one type of work) the statistics combine all types of work (except electrical installations) for each of the scheme operators. 3. Schemes have changed since the data first started being collected, so it is not always possible to make meaningful comparisons between past and current data.

Time

2006 - On-going (Other)

Data are updated on a 6 monthly basis. Data are broken down to competent person schemes

Dataset Quality

As government administrative statistics these can be considered relatively high quality. They offer coverage of the whole of England

Dataset Access and Use

A PDF of data tables is made available via the DCLG website. Not clear if it can be requested in other formats.

Government attitudes to research use of their data appear favourable.

Geography

Coverage: England

Units: National

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