The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA 29 June 2021 Dear Prime Minister, CC: The Speaker, The UK Statistics Authority Under the Conservative government rape convictions and prosecutions have fallen to a record-low, while the Crown Court backlog has risen to a record-high. As a […]
Rt Hon David Lammy MP Shadow Secretary of State for Justice & Shadow Lord Chancellor (via email) 29 July 2021 Dear Mr Lammy, Thank you for your letter of 29 June about a statement by the Prime Minister on funding for courts. I understand that the Lord Chancellor wrote to you on 9 […]
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Dear Ms Wells, Thank you for your letter of 4 June to Professor Sir Ian Diamond about the use of unpublished statistics by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care relating to hospital admissions for children.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 Professor Sir Ian, Ahead of the next session of International Trade questions in the House of Commons, which has been confirmed for 10th June, I am writing to seek your advice regarding statements by government ministers relating to employment in export-intensive industries at constituency and regional level, which I am concerned may be giving […]
Dear Ms Thornberry, Thank you for your letter of 15 May to Professor Sir Ian Diamond about statements by Ministers on employment in export-intensive industries, which used estimates made by the Fraser of Allander Institute for a Department for International Trade (DIT) report. We have reviewed the examples you gave and consider that Ministers have […]
Dear Mr Malthouse, Thank you for your letter of 2 May about the Leader of the Opposition’s statements on crime. I have written to Sir Keir today and I enclose a copy of my letter to him. Yours sincerely, Sir David Norgrove Related links: Letter from Kit Malthouse to Sir David Norgrove – Crime Statistics […]
Dear Sir Keir, At Prime Minister’s Questions on 28 April you said that “crime is going up”. You made a similar claim during the Commons debate on the Queen’s Speech on 11 May: “Since 2015, recorded violent crime has doubled”. As the Office for National Statistics says in every release of crime statistics, and I […]
Dear Mr Mayor, Thank you for your letter of 13 November 2020 about the population projections and mid-year population estimates for Coventry. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has looked into your concerns as part of a wider review of the population estimates and projections produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), against the […]
Dear Sir David, I am writing to express my concern over comments made by the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer QC MP, in the House of Commons, to the media and on social media on Wednesday 28 April 2021 and Thursday 29 April 2021. During Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday 28 April 2021 […]