Dear Ms Wells, Thank you for your letter of 21 July to Professor Sir Ian Diamond about a graphic on face masks shared by the Deputy First Minister. Mr Swinney has deleted the tweet in question and clarified his meaning. I welcome the commitment by him and the First Minister to using verifiable statistics in […]
Dear Sir Ian, Misleading statistics used by the Scottish Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery. I write to you regarding the above matter. You may be aware of recent media reports concerning statistics that were used by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, John Swinney MSP. In a […]
Dear Ms Wells, Thank you for your letter of 4 June to Professor Sir Ian Diamond about the use of unpublished statistics by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care relating to hospital admissions for children. As you said, the figure used was not available publicly at the time the statement was made. […]
Dear Sir Ian, Misleading statistics used by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health. I write to you regarding the above matter. You may be aware of recent media reports concerning statistics that were used by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Humza Yousaf, regarding hospitalisations of children and COVID-19. In an interview on BBC Radio Scotland on […]
Dear Sir Ian, Misleading statistics reported by the National Clinical Director for Scotland I write to you regarding the above matter. You may be aware of recent media reports concerning a statistic that was used by the National Clinical Director for Scotland, Prof. Jason Leitch, at the Scottish Government’s daily COVID-19 briefing on Friday 26th […]
Dear Mr Cameron, Thank you for your letter to Sir Ian Diamond of 5 March about the references to Covid-19 deaths data by National Clinical Director for Scotland, Professor Jason Leitch. I have asked the Office for Statistics Regulation to look at this and will come back to you when they have done so. Yours […]
30 July 2020 (by email) Dear Mr Briggs, Thank you for your letter of 9 July about a comparison made by the Scottish Government of COVID-19 prevalence in Scotland and England. The sources used for this comparison were not immediately apparent. As the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has made clear in past statements,[1] when […]
Thursday 9th July 2020. Dear Sir David I am writing to seek your guidance on the recent use of statistics by the Scottish Government in relation to the prevalence of Covid 19 in the community in Scotland and England. Scottish Ministers have asserted in recent days that that the number of Coronavirus cases in the […]