Dear Dame Angela, Thank you for your letter regarding a tweet posted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that was retweeted by HM Treasury on 25 April. It stated that: “To restore our public finances, I had to take some difficult decisions last autumn. But we have made progress. By 2027-28, headline debt levels are […]
Dear Sir Robert, Misleading Government Social Media Content I am writing to raise concerns over statistics used by the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the state of the public finances which I believe to be inaccurate and misleading. Recently, the Chancellor has made misleading claims on public debt figures through his Twitter account. On 25 […]
Dear Shadow Chancellor, I am writing to you about a graphic posted on your Twitter timeline on 14 March showing the GDP growth rates forecast for each of the G7 countries by the International Monetary Fund in January. An important role of data visualisation is to aid understanding of the data. But in this case the graph […]
Dear Mr Gwynne, Thank you for your letter about figures on adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccinations used by Sir Christopher Chope MP in a Parliamentary debate. There is no basis in the official statistics on the COVID-19 vaccine programme to support the claim that vaccines have caused such a high number of severe adverse […]
Dear Sir David, I am writing to raise concerns over recent comments made in Parliament by Sir Christopher Chope, Member of Parliament for Christchurch. In a recent question on the 31st of March during Cabinet Office Questions, Mr Chope stated that “there is another NHS treatment disaster in the making, in the fact that […]
Sir David Norgrove writes to Jeremy Corbyn on use of violent crime statistics, 4 December 2019.