Analysis

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14 July 2015

Economy, Business & Finance

Who's responsible for scrutinizing our official statistics?

The government has announced a review of the production Britain's economic statistics. The Treasury could assume responsibility for the quality of official figures, and it's argued that this would make production answerable to parliament. But the production of UK statistics is already answerable to parliament through the work of the UK statistics authority. Read

Analysis
10 July 2015

Economy, Business & Finance

The welfare budget

A look at the welfare budget with context, key facts and sources of information. Read

Analysis
8 July 2015

Economy, Business & Finance

Factchecking the Summer Budget 2015

We've picked out and checked nine claims from Osborne and Harman's speeches on the Summer Budget. Read

Analysis

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