Shortly after launching an attack on the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, a message purporting to come from the hacker group LulzSec says it has taken data given by UK citizens in this ...

Hack attack! Rumours are flying around the Internet that LulzSec has stolen UK census data and seen one of its members arrested. Is the net closing on headline-grabbing hackers? Richard Trenholm was ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK should continue to conduct its traditional once-a-decade census, the country’s statistics authority said ...

Planning has begun for the next census of England and Wales, with the survey expected to take place in 2031. A census of the population has been held regularly since 1801, typically every 10 years, ...

L abour has been urged to enact an "emergency census" to identity the true number of people in the United Kingdom because "we simply don't know who is in the country". Champions of a census argue the ...

The UK's statistics body has expressed confidence in a finding that 262,000 people in England and Wales have a different gender identity to their sex registered at birth. The Office for National ...

A full set of UK-wide data collected for the 2021 census has been made available for the first time. Many details from the census have already been released, revealing a wealth of population ...

Gender identity data from the latest census has been downgraded amid concern some people may not have understood the question properly due to language barriers. The Office for National Statistics (ONS ...