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Carl Baker
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Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. Personal account for posts on stats, maps, dataviz, games, travel, and misc.
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I first did the constituency analysis quite a few years ago, but it's been good to bring it up to date. Some interesting patterns.
How do leasehold transactions vary by constituency? An annotated map of the percentage of sales that were leasehold by constituency in 2024 in England and Wales. Annotations explain: 23% of residential property sales were leasehold in England and Wales in 2024. 98% of flats were sold leasehold, compared with only 6% of houses. There was also a lot of variation between constituencies. There were some leasehold 'hotspots' in areas where it's more common for houses to be sold leasehold, including parts of the North West and Yorkshire. Other hotspots are areas where flats make up a large proportion of overall sales, like central London.
July 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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County council have now sent round a leaflet about this - almost entirely promoting their preferred two-council option, with only a cursory mention of the rival three-council option which is also being consulted on (that most districts support)
July 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I don’t get much engagement on my posts about stats but I’ll press on as I think its important. So it seems that we are about to have a lot of leadership churn with Robert Chote stepping down early as chair of the Stats Authority whilst they also appoint other key roles 😬
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Today we launch an internal expression of interest for this new Permanent Secretary role. It closes on 21 July. This will be open to existing Directors General and Permanent Secretaries. This vital role will be responsible for leading the ONS' operational business and restoring much needed trust and confidence in the department. In parallel we have also begun the process to find the next National Statistician and will shortly appoint a search partner to support us on this critical appointment leading our national government statistical service. Last month Sir Robert Chote informed the Cabinet Office of his intention to step down as UKSA Chair in the autumn to take up the role of President of Trinity College, Oxford. A campaign to appoint his successor will be launched within the next few weeks.
July 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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More than a quarter of people think MPs expenses are one of the top three costs for government. A higher % than think the same for pensions or education.
July 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Working: "yes and I use one" on p161 divided by weighted base on p158. Base on p161 is just those who had a mobile in the household.

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July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM