The headquarters of the Royal Statistical Society are located near the Barbican Centre, at 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX. These headquarters provide a venue for major debates on subjects central to the life of the nation. Here meetings, lectures and debates take place on issues of public policy such as education, HIV and AIDS, census methodology the health service, league tables, and unemployment. In short the Society's public rooms are a forum for absorbing, disseminating and debating statistics and their significance.