Archive: 25 October – 31 October 2010

• Friday 29 October 2010

• Hunting Act convictions at their highest: Get the figures here

  

  Figures out show highest level of convictions under the Hunting Act. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

  New figures show Hunting Act convictions to be at their highest number yet. Get the full list here
  

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  Posted by Ami Sedghi 18.47 BST

• Minister's gifts, travels and meetings: see the full list

  

  Ministerial gifts, transport and meetings revealed by the Cabinet Office Photograph: Emily Lai/Alamy

  High travel costs and gifts for ministers revealed. See the full list here

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  Posted by Ami Sedghi 13.41 BST

• Scrapping child benefit for high earners is said to save £2.5bn: where did this figure come from?

  

  A new national survey suggest Britons have more liberal attitudes to what constitutes a normal family. Photograph: Digital Vision / Alamy/Alamy

  The child benefit data gives clues about the difficulty of implementing the policy and check the data behind the policy costing of child benefit for high earners.

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  Posted by Lisa Evans 12.11 BST

• Thursday 28 October 2010

• Housing benefit reforms: who's hit the hardest?

  

  The losers from capping local housing allowanceand pegging benefits to a lower rate next year Photograph: Graphic

  Piecing together the data to get the big picture on housing benefit reform

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  Posted by Lisa Evans 20.32 BST

• New transport projects mapped: see all 24 schemes

  

  24 road and public transport schemes have been confirmed for England. Photograph: Christopher Thomond

  Transport minister Philip Hammond has confirmed funding for road and public transport schemes across England. Find the locations here.

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  Posted by SA Mathieson 11.16 BST

• We need greater transparency over aid budgets

  

  Aid parcels for Pakistan's flood victims in Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Photograph: Rana Zahid/EPA

  Jonathan Glennie and Claire Provost: Without budget information, the poor and marginalised find it harder to hold the powerful to account

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  Posted by Jonathan Glennie and Claire Provost 11.05 BST

• How does the British economy benefit from the Internet?

  

  Value of internet economy by country Photograph: Graphic

  How do you measure the effects of the internet on the economy? A Google funded report published today answers this question and concludes the internet business in the UK made £100 billion in 2009.

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  Posted by Lisa Evans 10.31 BST

• Wednesday 27 October 2010

• Top baby names of 2009: get the full list

  

  Baby names: Oliver and Olivia are the most popular choices

  Oliver and Olivia: the most popular baby names in England and Wales. Find out the others here

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  Posted by Ami Sedghi and Lisa Evans 13.56 BST

• Tuesday 26 October 2010

• UK GDP since 1948

  

  GDP changes over previous recessions

  Gross Domestic Product is the output of Britain. Find out how this recession compares to the others

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  Posted by Simon Rogers, Ami Sedghi and Lisa Evans 18.00 BST

• Corruption index 2010 from Transparency International: find out how each country compares

  

  Corruption index 2010 from Transparency International: Members of Burma's military junta, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Photograph: David Longstreath/AP

  Which country is most corrupt? Why has the US score gone down? See how the annual corruption index has changed

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  Posted by Simon Rogers 09.00 BST

• Monday 25 October 2010

• Wikileaks Iraq: what's wrong with the data?

  

  Wikileaks Iraq war logs deaths mapped. Get the map

  How reliable is the Wikileaks Iraq data? An insider explains its limits

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  Posted by Simon Rogers 08.30 BST