Government data
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This week: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in perilPodcast
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NAO forecast for costs of 190 pandemic measures over half year finds furlough outlay of £35.4bn so far most expensive
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Treasury pushed to help UK housebuilders and extend subsidies for construction delayed by Covid-19 lockdown
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Experts attribute fewer excess deaths to ‘displaced mortality’
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Workaholic whose departure from Sage is huge blow to Johnson standing on pandemic
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Scientists on UK government’s coronavirus advisory group say Dominic Cummings was an active participant
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Labour labels Whitehall data ‘unreliable undercount’ as local councils show numbers almost five times higher
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Chancellor claims Labour set on raising expenditure by 30% but £1.2tn price tag fails to assess pay-back through nationalisation
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Non-EU migration overstated in decade of official data now reclassified as ‘experimental’
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Spending for Brexit preparations increased to stockpile medicines and recruit border officials
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About 16,000 civil servants have worked on Brexit at estimated cost of £1.5bn to date
No 10's coronavirus briefings: stick to the script and hope no one sees your nose growing