Dear Sir Ian, I’m writing on the subject of statistics used by the Scottish Government, the SNP, and the “Yes” campaign, which is at least partially run by the SNP. As you will of course know, the SNP Scottish Government are putting a great deal of resource into pushing for the break-up of the United […]
Dear Baroness Finlay, Thank you for your letter of 28 May to the Director General for Regulation about research by ONS on suicides among people diagnosed with severe health conditions. I apologise for the delay in replying. You are quite right to highlight the importance of treating this issue with sensitivity. As ONS did in […]
Dear Sir David, I am writing to raise concerns over the misrepresentation of official statistics from the results of the Consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation by the Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS), Nadine Dorries MP. The Government’s response to the consultation on a potential […]
Dear Mr Stone, Thank you for your letter of 20 May about the misrepresentation of the results of the Consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation at the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee, by the Secretary of State Nadine Dorries MP on 19 May. We spoke to the […]
Dear Mr Humpherson, On 20th April 2022 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a report “Suicides among people diagnosed with severe health conditions, England: 2017 to 2020”. The analysis linked Census, Hospital Episodes and Mortality data to explore the risk of death by suicide following diagnosis (or first treatment) of severe physical health conditions. […]
Dear Sir David, I am writing to raise concerns over the misleading use of official employment statistics by the Prime Minister. At Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons today, the Prime Minister told the House that there are “500,000 more people in paid employment now than there were before the pandemic began.” However, […]
Dear Ms Jardine, Thank you for bringing the use of employment statistics during Prime Minister’s Questions on 27 April to my attention. The Prime Minister should be clearer in his claims around employment now compared to before the pandemic began. While there are now more people on payrolls than before the pandemic, this increase is […]
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 […]
Dear Prime Minister, You said at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday that there are now more people in employment than before the pandemic began. According to the latest ONS figures, it is wrong to claim that there are now more people in work than before the pandemic began: the increase in the number of people who […]