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Government data

August 2024

  • A pair of hands on a laptop keyboard

    We need to make data sharing across UK government the rule, not the exception

    Robert Chote
  • Commuters cross London Bridge on their way to work at the City of London on 12 August. The Bank of England is looking at labour market data to determine the strength of inflationary forces lingering in the economy.

    ‘Share government data to boost economy’, says UK statistics watchdog chief

July 2024

  • Petra Fleming in front of Covid wall of remembrance with red hearts

    ‘Bittersweet’: Covid report does not go far enough, say bereaved families

    Relatives feel vindicated by ‘damning’ analysis of an unprepared Britain but say many issues not addressed

January 2024

  • Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour party

    Councils in crisis
    Angela Rayner: Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plaster

    Exclusive: Labour ‘under no illusions’ about mess party stands to inherit, as council leaders warn more will go bust next year

November 2023

  • London Trans+ Pride march, July 2022, UK

    Census records trans population in England and Wales – but accuracy is doubted

    Statisticians say question on gender and sex in 2021 ONS survey could have been misinterpreted by people unable to speak English well

August 2023

  • Pollution in the River Thames, London, May 2018

    RSPB v the Tories: six environmental promises - lies or otherwise?

  • Winchester college in Hampshire

    UK spends £13m on private schooling for diplomats’ children

February 2023

  • The rule was issued last month as part of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s rewrite of employee procedures.

    Biden administration’s rule for federal scientists is a ‘gag order’, critics say

    Federal scientists would largely be barred from publicly discussing research, which could have a ‘chilling effect’, experts say

January 2023

  • Cumbrian base of The Lakes Distillery

    British taxpayers get stake in psychedelic medicine, whisky and footballers’ investor

    Government’s Future Fund rescue capital, set up amid Covid pandemic, backs a further 53 firms

November 2022

  • The Lady of Justice statue on top of the ‘Old Bailey’ central criminal court in London.

    Britain’s justice system is hampered by bad data collection

  • Georgina Sturge

    From migration to railways, how bad data infiltrated British politics

    Georgina Sturge

July 2022

  • Primary school class

    Pupil numbers in England set to shrink by almost 1 million in 10 years

    Government forecast anticipates 12% decline, mainly due to fewer births, with surplus school places in years ahead

February 2022

  • Spiegelhalter

    I didn’t take Covid seriously enough, admits leading statistician

    Sir David Spiegelhalter tells Desert Island Discs he wouldn’t make a good government adviser because he is too optimistic

December 2021

  • Covid-19 patients in Milton Keynes hospital ICU, England, January 2021

    Covid in England: how the NHS could be hit this winter

    Hospitals may have fewer Covid-19 patients now but the statistics point to worrying times ahead for the NHS

October 2021

  • Matt Hancock

    MPs and civil servants called to account for misleading use of statistics

    Official statistics watchdog has responded to a rise in complaints from politicians and the public about misuse of figures

July 2021

  • Habitat mosaic at the Knepp estate, Sussex

    The age of extinction
    New biodiversity algorithm ‘will blight range of natural habitats in England’

  • Tom Scholar

    Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones

June 2021

  • Covid-19 test site, England. Ministers received an email from a senior civil servant relaying the ‘fast track’ notice for firms bidding for Covid test contracts.

    Concerns over VIP lane for Covid testing contracts after ‘fast track’ email revealed

  • Pupils attending a school in Gloucestershire, in March 2021, queue for a Covid-19 test

    Tory group demands rethink on recovery plan for English schools

December 2020

  • Information from smart phone<br>information coming out of a smart phone

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archives: How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next – podcast

    This week: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril
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