Rochdale has the nation’s worst learner drivers, with just 31 per cent managing to pass their driving test, figures reveal Rochdale boasts the nation’s worst learner drivers, official statistics say Novice motorists in Erith, South-East London, had the second-worst pass rate Other locations in the table include Leeds, Wolverhampton and Wanstead By David Jarvis For The … Read more
Ministers are ‘flying blind’ on migrant statistics because monitoring how many foreigners are travelling to and from Britain has ‘fallen apart’ during Covid-19 pandemic Academics say there is no reliable data on how many migrants arrived last year They also noted that an extra 1.25million people had ‘appeared’ in one survey Director of the Migration … Read more
More proof England’s Covid-19 outbreak is slowing down? ONS estimates 35,200 people got infected every day last week – a rise of 26% in a week (but the speed of growth has slowed again) Office for National Statistics data is based on random swab testing of the population across England Its estimates last week were … Read more
Coronavirus cases in Britain ARE rising: Official for National Statistics and symptom-tracking app agree there are now more than 3,200 new infections per day and climbing ‘Estimate suggests the number of infections has increased in recent weeks,’ the ONS admitted today ONS predicts that almost 40,000 people are ill with the coronavirus at any time … Read more
Coronavirus cases were at least three times higher than the Government was reporting at the height of the UK’s crisis, data suggests. Analysis of thousands of GP appointment records show there were 8,985 suspected Covid-19 cases between February 14 and April 30. This is the number of people who family doctors thought had Covid, but could … Read more
England’s coronavirus outbreak has slowed down for a third week in a row with official statistics estimating there are now just 2,200 new cases per day. Some 28,200 people in England are thought to be infected at any one time – 0.05 per cent of the population or one in every 1,900 people. This total, … Read more
UK announces 16 more coronavirus deaths: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland record zero victims for second day running but SAGE warns the R rate has risen to dreaded number 1 in England NHS England revealed that all victims had died in its hospitals, while other home nations suffered no deaths The preliminary total does not account … Read more
Matt Hancock is blasted by UK statistics chief over his 100,000-per-day testing target and daily updates saying they have ‘limited detail’ and need improvement to increase ‘trustworthiness’ with the public David Norgrove, chairman of UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Health Secretary He highlighted shortcomings in the 100,000 target and daily testing updates It came as … Read more
By any stretch of the imagination, the economic data that has been part of the top two or three nightly news items for the last six weeks has been colossally dreadful. Bright and early this morning we saw the Bank of England warn UK GDP will slump by 14 per cent this year as the … Read more
Every day, hundreds more lives are lost to Covid-19. Social media is awash with data and graphs, our death rate plotted against that of other nations. And the graphs all seem to point to the same grim conclusion: that the UK is one of worst affected countries, with our death toll approaching a chilling 30,000. In … Read more