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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 17th Aug 2010

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Revised figures for Scottish prisoner escort costs

After the payments made to Reliance Custodial Service under its contract to transport prisoners in Scotland were analysed

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Tue 17th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 16th Aug 2010

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Angry midwives turn on flawed evidence

The Royal College of Midwives has taken a pot at the use of flawed evidence used to discourage women from giving birth at home.
 

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Mon 16th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 16th Aug 2010

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Sex survey hits a duff note

Our old friends at the PR agency 72 point, who carry out all those “surveys

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Mon 16th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Fri 13th Aug 2010

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False claims on London road casualties

A letter in today’s Times, from Douglas L Stewart of Aberdeen, claims that the removal of guard railings from roads in London caused pedestrian casualties in London to “escal

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Fri 13th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 5th Aug 2010

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Wacky numbers on the learning disabled

Last month’s least likely claim appeared in The Times (9 July, below).

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Comments (3) :: Last comment Sat 28th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 4th Aug 2010

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The 2011 Census: tilting at windmills

Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, has been forced to eat his words over the 2011 Census. In opposition he castigated it as a waste of money.
 

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Wed 4th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Fri 16th Jul 2010

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Support for Making Sense of Statistics

Two Liberal Democrat MPs have put down an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons welcoming Making Sense of Statistics, the guide published by Straight Statistics and Sense about Scienc

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Comments (1) :: Last comment Sat 17th Jul 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 15th Jul 2010

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Doing violence to crime statistics

The new Government promised a change: but in the way it is handling statistics, it has so far been a change for the worse.
 

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Comments (1) :: Last comment Thu 26th Aug 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 14th Jul 2010

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OBR blunders breach the code

The Office of Budget Responsibility, already in political trouble over changes to unemployment statistics that favoured the Government, could also face charges that it breached the Code of Practi

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Wed 14th Jul 2010

Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 5th Jul 2010

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Backing for UK Statistics Authority

The Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics (and of Straight Statistics) has written to the Prime Minister backing calls for reform made by Sir Michael Scholar (pictured),

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Comments (0) :: Last comment Mon 5th Jul 2010