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Let’s not waste this crisis of confidence over the construction output figures

Let’s not waste this crisis of confidence over the construction output figures

The Office for National Statistics has come in for yet another beating over the construction figures, this time receiving a stern letter of criticism from the chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Sir Michael Scholar. I for one am hopeful that this might prompt a full-scale investigation of the construction output stats, which goes beyond the fact that someone got their sums wrong.