With the release of fuel poverty data by the government, we have visualised the way in which it is distributed across the country by parliamentary constituency. The report from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy found only a marginal decrease in the number of households living in fuel poverty from the year before.…
PoliMapper has been used in numerous events at Parliament and at the political party conferences in the last couple of years. But our most recent assignment came with a twist. In addition to providing our interactive mapping tool, we designed and produced a display stand featuring one of our maps. The client was the Sport…
Since 1999, wages for full-time workers have steadily increased across the UK. Using data from the Office for National Statistics we have created an interactive map of trends for annual, weekly and hourly wages in the country. In London, the region with the highest median gross wages in the United Kingdom, annual wages have almost…
During the past 12 months, more and more knife crimes have made the national headlines, highlighting a nationwide trend. Dozens of stabbings, many fatal, have been reported in the first quarter of 2018 in London alone. Using data from the House of Commons library, we have mapped knife crimes across English regions for 2016/2017. Data…
With the gender pay gap in the news again during the past week, we have used publicly available data to map the picture across the country. The data, released last year by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), shows that London is the place where the pay gap is at its worst. The UK capital…
The election’s over and the new MPs have been sworn in. With 26 standing down this election and 70 seats changing hands, there are a lot of new faces in Westminster. It means that there is a need – and an opportunity – to make sure your key messages and conclusions reach this parliament’s policymakers.…
When the EU Referendum was conducted in June of last year, the results were declared by local authority in line with protocol for referenda. But with General Election 2017 now upon us, and one that will be fought around the issue of Brexit, the distribution of Leave votes by parliamentary constituency is potentially significant -…
OK. We’ll be honest. Like you, that took us by surprise. The file labelled ‘general election plan’ contained precisely nothing. The prime minister had said there would be no snap election, and we believed her. As did our journalist colleagues at Politics.co.uk. Well however mad or shrewd she may be, here we are just seven…
We’ve managed to get our hands on some fantastic UK property market data. Using the House of Commons Library’s data resources, we’ve mapped average house prices across the UK by Parliamentary Constituency. The data available to us reaches as far back as 1995, giving you a 20 year period to examine market fluctuations across the…
The forthcoming Local Government Association conference seems like an appropriate reason to reflect on how data has the power to change the way we interact with our elected representatives. Accurate data is crucial to informed decision making, but getting relevant data in front of our MPs and our councillors can be a difficult task. There…