{"value":{"id":1260125,"memberId":4708,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Innovation)","uin":"HLWS632","dateMade":"2020-12-10T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","title":" Update following Private Notice Question on the COVID-19: Transparency and accuracy of statistics","text":"<p>During the Private Notice Question on the COVID-19: Transparency and accuracy of statistics tabled by Lord Lilley on 9 November 2020, I was asked by Lord Lamont about a graph from the No10 presentation, specifically the one with four long term scenarios for daily deaths from COVID-19. I told the House that this graph had a presentational error in it, and I would like to correct the record. There were no presentational errors with this graph. The graphs from the press conference of 31 October with presentational errors in them were the projections of deaths and hospitalisations over the next six weeks, different graphs to the ones he referred to. This error only affected the visualisation of the confidence intervals (blue shaded area) and the upper bound was too high. The central projection was unaffected. As I said, these were corrected as soon as possible. I reassured him that the data upon which decisions were made and the data that went into the central projections of that amended charts were correct, and the fact that we have changed it demonstrates that we are committed to transparency in all these matters. This remains correct.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1260125","method":"GET"}]}