The single set of National Indicators (National Indicator Set, NIS) was announced by the Department for Communities and Local Government following the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review 2007. Effective from April 2008 to March 2011, the NIS was implemented as the only set of indicators on which central government performance managed local government.
- The national indicator information portal provides online access to the detailed definitions for each of the national indicators. A set of documents containing the full set of final definitions is also available.
- The NIS included indicators determined by measuring citizens' views and perspectives collected through a single Place Survey administered by all local authorities.
- Until October 2010, NIS data was reported and collected through the Data Interchange Hub, and also displayed through the Places Analysis Tool (PAT). A final version of the NIS data as was contained in the Hub is available to download from the Places Community website (external link).
- Performance against each of the national indicators was published annually by the Audit Commission, as part of Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) until work on CAA ended in May 2010.
On 14 October 2010, changes to local authority performance arrangements were announced by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles ahead of the Government's Spending Review. This included the ending of Local Area Agreements and the National Indicator Set (external link). Data collections for some of the remaining National Indicators continued until up to 31st March 2011. Unless stated on this spreadsheet provided by CLG (opens in a new window) remaining associated data collections also stopped on the 31 March 2011.
Some data collections will continue as part of the single data list for local government (external link). A summary of changes (PDF, 46kb) made to the set since its introduction in April 2008 is also available.