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Dear Colleagues, The next seminar of the South Wales local group of the RSS will take place on Wednesday 9th March at 5pm (Tea 4.30pm in the Foyer) at the Cinema, Welsh Assembly Government Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The speaker is Richard Cracknell (Head of Social Statistics, House of Commons Library) on: Politicians, Parliament and Statistics Politicians like to use statistics extensively in their work. Richard Cracknell heads a politically impartial team of statisticians in the House of Commons which provides Members of Parliament with statistics to do their job. The subjects they have to cover mirror the lives of MPs, from local government finance to demography, education and welfare to road accidents (and that's just on Monday!). In his talk, Richard will look at where parliamentarians get their statistics from and how they use (and abuse) them. He will also consider the implications for dissemination and accessibility of statistics that are posed by an increasingly electronic-only environment and the role that statistics play in having a truly informed democracy. All are welcome. Best wishes Rebecca Rebecca Cannings-John Statistician Cardiff University Department of General Practice, Wales College of Medicine, Health Centre, Maelfa, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff. CF23 9PN Tel: 029 2054 7521 Fax: 029 2054 0129