Promises by the Conservatives that they would “take the moral high ground” on statistics have not been redeemed, Sir Michael Scholar says.

There’s an interesting discussion on the data.gov website about the accessibility of the data available.

My first two papers of the day are the Racing Post, where the facts are invariably right and The Guardian

The Government has rejected calls from the UK Statistics Authority for changes in the way official statistics are handled.
 

Tomorrow’s public spending review is likely to be presented by all and sundry as cuts of a savagery not experienced since the Second World War.  

David Walker, Director of Communications at the soon-to-be-abolished Audit Commission, has written an interesting

Workshy scroungers have cost the taxpayer £28 billion over the past decade, the Daily Express splashed  on Monday.