Four times in six months the Office of Budget Responsibility and the UK Statistics Authority have publicly corrected Cameron and IDS for mis-using statistics

Cameron and Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith decide to check their facts...

SOURCE BBC NEWS: Iain Duncan Smith caught exaggerating benefit cap figures
The Work and Pensions Secretary said that his new benefit cap was having "the desired impact" because 8,000 people who would have faced a benefit cut had been incentivised to get jobs. But the UK Statistics Authority, the statistics watchdog, said his figures were simply "unsupported by the official statistics published by the department". For the third time in just six months, the head of the UK Statistics Authority has written to ministers to warn them about their misuse of statistics.

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