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Row over knife-crime data prompts call for independent statistics body

The UK Government was last night called on to hand full independent control of crime statistics to the Office of National Statistics after a �damning indictment of its cavalier use� of official data.

The UK Government was last night called on to hand full independent control of crime statistics to the Office of National Statistics after a "damning indictment of its cavalier use" of official data.