Mugged by Reality: Sadiq Khan Gets Gov’t Fact Check over False Claims of Reducing London Knife Crime
London Mayor Khan suffered an embarrassing fact check from the Office for Statistics Regulation over ‘incorrect’ claims he cut knife crime.
London Mayor Khan suffered an embarrassing fact check from the Office for Statistics Regulation over ‘incorrect’ claims he cut knife crime.
The majority of babies were born to unmarried mothers in Britain for the first time in recorded history, the ONS revealed on Tuesday.
The proportion of people over the age of 16 who have experienced some form of depression has more than doubled since before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
LONDON (AP) – Official figures show that the British economy ended 2020 on a stronger footing than previously thought but that it suffered a bigger than anticipated fall in output in the immediate aftermath of the first coronavirus lockdown.
The UK’s top statistician has predicted a third wave of the Chinese coronavirus would hit in the autumn, despite Britain’s “wonderful vaccination rollout” and virus cases being at their lowest since late September.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been accused of folding in the face of pressure from transgender lobbyists to allow people to ‘self identify’ their sex on the upcoming census, but the government body has denied the charge. A
So-called “ethnic pay gap” data has shown that young people from ethnic minorities are actually earning more than young white Britons.
The Muslim population of England is now estimated at over three million, according to official estimates — exceeding the total populations recorded for Wales or Northern Ireland in the 2011 census.
Non-EU immigration — the only type of immigration the Government can control — has risen to near-record levels.
The era of the single breadwinner able to support his household on a family wage appears to be truly finished in Britain, with Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicating that over 75 per cent of mothers now have to work.
By mid-2028, the population of the UK is set to increase by three million to 69.4 million, primarily driven by immigration.
Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has admitted its figures underestimate long-term migration between 2009 and 2016 by almost a quarter of a million.
More than 600,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom in 2018 — akin to the population of a city the size of Belfast.
The British government is significantly underestimating the likely impact of mass immigration on future population growth, according to an expert think tank.
British government statistics show that net arrivals from the European Union are at their lowest since 2014, but this has not stopped rising immigration from the rest of the world continuing to push the United Kingdom’s population upward.
The UK’s population has hit its highest ever level on record and is projected to grow to 73 million by 2041, mainly thanks to immigration, new data has revealed.
One in five adults in England and Wales experienced crime last year whilst London has hit its highest ever level of knife crime, according to statistics.
Wages in the UK have risen faster than at any time in almost 10 years, just months ahead of the official Brexit date.
The proportion of babies born in the UK to a migrant mother has risen to the highest level on record, hitting 75 per cent in some areas of London.
Around 610,000 migrants came to the UK in the year ending March 2018, with “long-term net migration” increasing and continuing to add huge numbers to the UK population.
“High-harm” violent offences involving weapons are soaring in England and Wales, as a crime wave continues, with knife and gun crime, as well as homicide, shooting up.
The latest population estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest Britain’s burgeoning population passed 66 million in 2o17, driven largely by immigration.
The populations of all regions in England are projected to grow over the next ten years, with London expanding fastest and the largest surge in numbers in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
The non-UK born population of Britain has continued to surge after the Brexit vote, hitting a record high and approaching 10 million, with much of the growth down to open borders with Europe.
There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show net immigration remains high, but the scale of the inflow from the European Union has slowed — allowing workers’ pay to rise.
The UK’s surge in recorded violent and sexual crime, including knife attacks, has accelerated at a faster rate than previously thought over the past year, new police statistics reveal.
Official new immigration figures show that while net migration to Britain has fallen by the largest amount on record in the last year, the number still remains in the hundreds of thousands.
New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show 3.59 million foreign workers are employed in the UK, including 2.38 million EU migrants — whose numbers have continued rising since the Brexit vote.
The population of the UK is projected to shoot up by 3.6 million (5.5 per cent) over the next 10 years, with more than half of the growth due to mass migration.
Police recorded crimes for England and Wales surged to over five million over the last year, according to a new Office for National Statistics (ONS) bulletin. Britain’s official statistical institute reports a 13 per cent increase in crime in the
The number of babies with at least one parent born outside the United Kingdom has risen to over a third, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Despite a post-Brexit vote fall in net-immigration, the foreign born and non-British population of the UK has continued to surge.
The UK will struggle to control immigration after Brexit as it does not have the capacity to measure numbers arriving, leaving, and staying, a parliamentary report has acknowledged.
An overview of the British population has revealed it is at its highest ever level, with experts claiming it will rise from 65 to 77 million in the next 22 years, largely due to immigration.
Crime in England and Wales has seen its largest annual rise in a decade, with violent crime increasing by 18 per cent.
New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that mothers born outside the UK accounted for 28.2 per cent of live births in England and Wales in 2016.
At 248,000, net immigration to the United Kingdom in 2016 remains roughly two-and-a-half times higher than the Conservative Party promised in 2010, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates.
New labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the number of people working in Britain who were born abroad now stands at 5.64 million – greater than the entire population of Scotland.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not been including night arrivals in its estimates of immigration to the UK, meaning that it could be far higher than officially claimed.