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🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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What does per capita GDP tell us about the UK economy? Did the government spend £94bn helping with rising energy prices? Was Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg right about the cost of the EU covid recovery scheme? How did Ben Goldacre persuade scientists to publish all their medical research?
Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporters: Nathan Gower and Lucy Proctor Producers: Debbie Richford, Perisha Kudhail, Olga Smirnova Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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0:44.0 | We are your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life. |
0:47.0 | And I'm Tim Harford. |
0:49.0 | This week we'll be scrutinising a boast about energy support payments on one of those |
0:55.9 | leaflets that MPs pushed through the letterbox. We have encouraging news about clinical |
1:01.1 | trials and what happens when parliamentary scrutiny meets a little bit of geeky goodness. |
1:06.8 | Oh and other referendum was in 2016, Jacob Rees-Mogg is still making claims about how much money the UK would be sending to the EU |
1:15.9 | if not for Brexit. |
1:17.5 | We'll pop in a monocle and take a look at that one. |
1:20.5 | But first, last, the Office for National Statistics released the latest numbers on the state of the UK |
1:28.4 | economy, including gross domestic product, GDP, a measure of the value of all the goods and services produced in the UK. |
1:37.0 | And the news wasn't great. |
1:39.0 | GDP had slightly shrunk for two successive quarters, which got people excited because it meets the |
1:45.9 | customary definition of a recession. But perhaps we should be looking at a slightly different number, |
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