Full Fact calls on UK Statistics Authority to stop private briefings of official data

2 April 2012

Last week we wrote about a recent trend for news outlets to release 'exclusive' stories based on privately obtained official data. This is something we successfully challenged in 2010 when the Department for Work and Pensions was doing it.

Today, Full Fact's Director Will Moy sent the following letter to Andrew Dilnot, the new Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, to try to make sure that when official data reaches the public we all have enough information to judge it for ourselves, and not just a partial version presented by whoever requested the data.

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