The National Statistics Office reviews government borrowing estimates after a data error

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The National Statistics Office reviewed the government borrowing numbers for the past and current fiscal year after a mistake in the tax receipts used to calculate the data.

The National Statistics Office said in a statement on Wednesday that the tax authorities alerted him that there were errors in the value -added tax receipts. As a result of this error, the National Statistics Office said that it had reviewed the low borrowing for the fiscal year that ended in March by one billion pounds and the total current fiscal year, which started in April, by 2 billion pounds.

The National Statistics Office has been criticized for months of politicians and England Bank for a series of problems in its important economic statistics, which makes it difficult for policy makers to make decisions on how to direct the economy.

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