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06.01.2022 - 17:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
John Swinney has been reported to the statistics authority after he was accused of misrepresenting the impact of covid restrictions in Scotland.
The Deputy First Minister, who is also the Covid Recovery Minister, suggested covid rates in Scotland were lower than in England because of extra measures introduced north of the border.
Speaking on the BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland show, he suggested Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing one in 40 Scots were infected compared to one in 25 in England were "the strongest evidence that the measures taken in Scotland are protecting the population from covid".
But the figures cited by Swinney were from before the Scottish Government imposed additional restrictions.
Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie has reported Swinney to the UK Statistics Authority, writing she was "deeply concerned" to hear the statistics allegedly being misrepresented.
In the letter to the watchdog's chairman Sir David Norgrove, Baillie wrote: "I am deeply concerned to hear John Swinney MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, wrongly use statistics from before the festive period to suggest that restrictions across Scotland, introduced by the Scottish Government, resulted in only 1 in 40 Scots contracting Covid-19, as compared to 1 in 25 in England.
"The Deputy First Minister cited a Covid-19 Infection Survey, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 31 December 2021, in making this erroneous claim.
"The data corresponded to the week ending 23 December 2021 when restrictions were not in place and the rules in Scotland and England were largely the same. In reality, the latest infection survey from ONS, to the week ending 31
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