Oflog

The Office for Local Government (Oflog) is the body responsible for assessing and improving the performance of local government in England. Established in 2023 following a string of local authority bankruptcies to collect statistics on local performance, it answers to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

, Oflog has no chair following the departure of Lord Morse before the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Following the release of a dataset on local government performance, The Times published an article ranking local authorities; This led to a significant criticism of Oflog for its failure to provide sufficient information on usage of the statistics, with some calling for a "reset" following the 2024 election.