Take out the trash day, fraud and error stats

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/13-bits-bad-news-tories-12947851#r3z-addoor

“That’s right - it’s Take Out the Trash Day.

All the embarrassing government statements get rushed out while Parliament’s still in session, with absolutely no time for MPs to debate or reporters to report.

On their own, announcements like these do no harm. But when they all come together, it makes it next to impossible to give each one the scrutiny they deserve.”

“Twice a year, the government unveils statistics on benefit fraudsters - and people who haven’t been paid enough welfare.

The most recent figures show 1% of all benefit spending was underpaid in 2016/17.

But now the figures will only be released once a year.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims it’s making the change because having two sets of stats will be “confusing”.

“We would like to stop publishing the statistics in November and only publish the data collected in the period October to September each year,” the DWP added.”