Worries that the 2011 Census will miss its targets are spelled out in an new assessment report

How do the three major political parties plan to improve public trust in official statistics?

The Conservative Party has been left scrambling for cover after its use of crime statistics earned it the ire of the UK Statistics Authority.

 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 latest data on hospital admissions for assault bring little comfort to the Home Office’s Tackling Knives Action Programme, launched in ten areas in June 2008.

Unnoticed in the pre-Christmas rush, the UK Statistics Authority has published a report on crime statistics.

Stop bellyaching about the census, Sir Michael Scholar has told Nick Hurd MP, who had complained, inter alia, that it was a licence to snoop into people’s private lives.

Britain’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions has been reported by the Government in a way that is likely to mislead, the UK Statistics Authority has concluded.

This week the Statistics Authority published a critical assessment of road casualty statistics.

Journalists may have to face the ending of the system by which they get an early sight of official statistics, under embargo.