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

Statisticians have rushed hither and yon to umpire the row between Michael Gove and Ed Balls in the Commons over whether – as Mr Gove claimed – only 45 of the 80,000 children

The inquiry into the National DNA Database by the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, which was published on Monday, comes after much of the ‘inquiring’ - including by

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