Have you seen this news on the BBC/ any news media ... UH… or even heard any Labour MP complain about not just the figures but where he got them from, Have we hell…. It was not even a subject to batter the Coalition with in Prime Ministers question time today.

The admin team are thinking of starting up a newsletter and filling it full figures that show the Benefits system is working flawlessly and there is no need for workfare to Ian Duncan Smith, to see if this can become policy. If anyone out there is willing to help put this together, please contact us.

Benefit policy based on figures culled from web

Iain Duncan Smith misled Parliament by passing off figures from a property comparison website owned by the Daily Mail as official government figures.

In a parliamentary debate, the Work and Pensions Secretary claimed that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that private sector rents had fallen by 5 per cent last year. At the same time he claimed the amount local authorities paid to private landlords had risen by 3 per cent.

But, in fact, the ONS does not collect such statistics and the figures he quoted came from the website findaproperty.com owned by Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers.


Source; Independent

So finally something is being said, but hey Sir Michael Scholar these politicians don’t have the public’s trust. Now do we see ED (the Lame Duck) giving it `What For` on the floor of parliament, don’t think so as he’s a buddy with Dave now after accepting gifts on his daughter’s birth from him.

Welfare ministers rebuked over 'serious deficiencies' in data use

Government warned it risks losing public trust as UK statistics chief criticises ministers failure to provide evidence for claims

The head of the UK Statistics Authority has issued a public rebuke to welfare ministers over their use of official statistics, warning of "serious deficiencies" in the handling of unemployment data.

Sir Michael Scholar, the head of the authority, said that by failing to show the evidence for claims made by ministers, the government risked undermining public trust.

His criticism comes a day after Iain Duncan Smith, the secretary of state for work and pensions, was forced to explain to MPs why the "official" statistics he quoted in parliament had in fact been taken from a property website owned by the Daily Mail.

Source; Guardian