The UK Statistics Authority has issued its pre-election wish-list in a letter from the authority’s Chair, Sir Michael Scholar (pictured), to the leaders of the major political par

The new Government data site, www.data.gov.uk, has opened for business.

In December the Financial Times published a Harris survey of the public's confidence in national statistics across five European countries and the USA.

Credit where it's due. A House of Commons committee plans to ask the Government Office for Science on what evidence policies are based.

Radio 4’s flagship, the Today programme, has fallen for a common misrepresentation of the gap in pay between men and women.

Interesting article today in The Independent by Amol Rajan about why the perception of crime and its reality remain far apart. Crime falls, but the perception of crime doesn't.

The Taxpayers' Alliance, an estimable body which seeks out waste and tries to prevent it, is vexed by Whitehall's taxi bill. It's £8 million a year, apparently. Mathew Elliot, the alliance's chief executive, calls this "excessive".

Government spending is set to rise to 50 per cent of GDP in 2010-11, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. In 2007-08 it was 41.1 per cent.

 Four out of five people are satisfied with their local area as a place to live, a new survey published today by the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) has found. But issues about how the survey was designed and carried out, together with an embarrassingly low response rate to some questions, suggest we shouldn’t attach too much importance to the findings.

Civitas has published a report by Mervyn Stone, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at University College London accusing  the Government of "sidelining honesty and truth" in major poli