In July, the SSRO announced a proposal to discontinue the quarterly statistics bulletins and sought feedback from stakeholders on these proposals.
The quarterly bulletins were introduced to assist early monitoring of the regime and provide regular updates on a smaller number of contracts. As the regime is now more mature, we believe the utility of quarterly trend data on QDCs/QSCs has reduced. Discontinuation of the quarterly bulletins will allow us to focus resources on developing further the annual bulletin.
There was one response to this proposal stating that whilst the quarterly bulletins were valuable, they understood the rationale for focusing resources on the annual publication. As such, the SSRO has decided to discontinue publication of the quarterly bulletins. Historic quarterly bulletins are still available on the SSRO website, and the annual series of bulletins, which contain a more expanded set of statistics, will continue to be published each June.