You can keep updated with what’s missing from data.police.uk on UKCrimestats.com here. Apart from Greater Manchester Police where the missing data and other failings has led to the recent sacking of the Chief Constable, there is now a growing problem with Staffordshire and West Mercia Police Forces who have not reported data for 5-6 months.

You wouldn’t know it from the fairly breathless media coverage on property prices – i.e. mostly going up – but property sales in total are still running at a fraction – about half – what they were about a year ago, pre-pandemic. Typicallly, we expected to see 80-90,000 property transactions each month – now we’re […]