{"id":61848,"date":"2018-10-08T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/08\/statistics-watchdog-reprimands-damian-hinds-education-department-over-misleading-figures-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:37:10","slug":"statistics-watchdog-reprimands-damian-hinds-education-department-over-misleading-figures-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=61848","title":{"rendered":"Statistics watchdog reprimands Damian Hinds&#039; education department over misleading figures &#8211; Politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenDowning Street lobby briefing &#8211; Summary 2.37pm BST Damian Hinds, the education secretary, has responded to Sir David Norgrove, the UK Statistics Authority chairman, with an open letter (pdf). In it he defends his department\u2019s use of statistics in the three instances complained of (see 2.16pm) and says he wants the DfE\u2019s figures to be \u201cfactually accurate and used in the right context\u201d. Education Sec @DamianHinds response to &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; of Statistics Authority 1\/2 re figures on school spending pic.twitter.com\/8zHMeNjjYGEducation Sec @DamianHinds response 2\/2 to Statistics Authority pic.twitter.com\/EhaBmxRMCO 2.28pm BST Oh dear. I fear we may be heading for another breakdown in the Brexit talks. According to the Telegraph\u2019s James Crisp, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, may have been mocking the prime minister\u2019s dancing skills.Is this @JunckerEU mocking @theresa_may &#8216;s Abba dance at a speech to the Committee of the Regions?I am saying yes. What say you @MargSchinas or @Mina_Andreeva ? pic.twitter.com\/qyzHddY3oJ Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/blog\/live\/2018\/oct\/08\/labour-and-tory-mayors-unite-to-demand-they-take-back-control-of-regional-spending-after-brexit-politics-live\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics watchdog reprimands Damian Hinds&#039; education department over misleading figures &#8211; Politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the day\u2019s political developments as they happenDowning Street lobby briefing &#8211; Summary 2.37pm BST Damian Hinds, the education secretary, has responded to Sir David Norgrove, the UK Statistics Authority chairman, with an open letter (pdf). In it he defends his department\u2019s use of statistics in the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}