Row over quality of migration data
Updated on 22 August 2007
The Government's statistics agency should be handed emergency cash to improve data on population levels, it is claimed.
Westminster Council called on the Treasury to give extra money to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) following a long-running dispute over the way migrant levels are measured.
Westminster claims its population was vastly under-estimated in the 2001 Census, leaving it out of pocket when Government funds were handed out. The call comes as the ONS is due to issue the latest figures on population estimates for mid-2006.
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