Figures delayed as police and borders bills pass through parliament
Campaigners said the withholding of key data appeared to be an attempt to avoid negative headlines while the Home Office’s two controversial legislative proposals – the policing bill and the borders bill – pass through parliament.
The government’s official stop-and-search statistics, covering the year up to April 2021, should have been published last month. The Home Office has failed to do so, saying that the three-week delay is because of a change in the level at which recorded data has been collected, meaning extra time is required to check it and to “resolve data quality issues”.
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