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The Latest Breaking News from The UK Statistics Authority

South London council's claim of tax freeze may 'mislead' residents, UKSA warns

While the authority froze its ‘core’ council tax, the overall bill for residents rose by roughly 3%

Evening Standard

Labour council warned of ‘potential to mislead’ taxpayers over frozen tax claim

The UK Statistics Authority has written to Wandsworth Council about the claim it is freezing council tax for the fourth consecutive year.

Evening Standard

Reed’s claims about Scottish water pollution could have misled public – watchdog

The SNP has now urged the former UK environment secretary to apologise.

Evening Standard

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Head of ONS steps down over ‘health issues’ amid criticism of data flaws

Sir Ian Diamond led the Office for National Statistics for the past five years.

Evening Standard

Head of ONS quits job over ‘health issues’ amid criticism from politicians

Sir Ian Diamond is Britain’s most senior statistician

The Independent UK

‘Share government data to boost economy’, says UK statistics watchdog chief

The UK Statistics Authority’s chair says linking data sets from departments could aid growth and improve services• We need to make data sharing across UK government the rule, not the exception

The Guardian - UK

Are the Tories Indulging In Series of Misleading Claims Including Asylum Backlog Clearance?

The statistical watchdog UK Statistics Authority has intervened in the asylum backlog clearance matter for the second time refuting UK government claims as half truths.

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Statistics watchdog to scrutinise Sunak’s claim the asylum backlog has been ‘cleared’

The UK Statistics Authority said the announcement would be investigated

Evening Standard

Watchdog launches probe into Rishi Sunak’s claim that asylum backlog ‘cleared’

Rishi Sunak’s claim that ministers have “cleared” the asylum backlog is being investigated by the official statistics watchdog after…

The National (Scotland)

‘Minor updates’ made to alcohol report following review by statistics watchdog

Public Health Scotland and the Scottish Government has amended a summary document published in June after a complaint by the Tories.

The Independent UK

Tory MSP wrong in challenge of minimum alcohol pricing research, say medical experts

A group of medical experts have defended an agency’s research into the effects of alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP), saying a Conservative MSP…

The National (Scotland)

MSP complains over ‘misleading’ claims on minimum unit price for alcohol

Dr Sandesh Gulhane has written to the head of the UK Statistics Authority over Scottish Government

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak could face ANOTHER probe - this time over 'misleading' asylum data

Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock branded it unacceptable that three Tory frontbenchers - including the Prime Minister - have failed to correct misleading claims

Daily Mirror

Sunak used incorrect asylum backlog figures, stats watchdog finds

Asylum data cited by the Prime Minister ‘do not reflect’ Home Office records, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority said

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Sunak used incorrect asylum backlog figures in Parliament, stats tsar finds

Asylum data cited by the Prime Minister ‘do not reflect’ Home Office records, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority said.

Daily Mirror

Top Tories including Rishi Sunak used misleading immigration figures, watchdog finds

The UK Statistics Authority has written to the government after three ministers including Mr Sunak claimed in December that the current backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office - whereas official figures show it is 150,000 higher

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