Corrections
We publish a lot of statistics. Numbers move, sources get misread, and errors happen — what matters is what we do when we find one. Every correction made to a figure on this site is listed below: what it said, what it says now, and why. Nothing here is quietly fixed.
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This list is generated directly from our Figures & sources fact-check log — every figure whose entry notes a correction appears here automatically, so there's no separate step where one could quietly go missing. 10 corrections logged so far, out of 35 figures we track.
Now reads: “70% of people on benefits have never heard that social tariffs exist”
Corrected from a previously-published 55% — that number didn't match any Ofcom awareness-tracking wave. Ofcom's own series has moved 84% → 69% → 53% → 69% → 70% since 2022, so re-check this one every time Ofcom publishes.
Used on: Home · Why it matters · Who is acting?
Now reads: “A social tariff can save an eligible household around £200 a year”
Corrected from a previously-published "£12/month overpay" figure, which was not a real Ofcom statistic.
Used on: Why it matters
Now reads: “UK Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme: up to £3,500 (business) / £1,500 (residential)”
Corrected from a previously-published £4,500 business figure — £4,500 is the combined/group-project cap, not the per-business voucher. These values change periodically; re-check before quoting.
Used on: Get help
Now reads: “An estimated 9% of Scottish households — around 490,000 people — have no internet connection at all”
Corrected from a previously-published "700,000 people" figure, which had no traceable primary source and was inconsistent with the household-survey-derived estimate above.
Used on: News
Now reads: “"No leadership, no momentum: Scottish Government has failed to act on digital exclusion" (Third Force News)”
Corrected the date — this was previously implied to be an August 2024 piece (the month of the Audit Scotland report it responds to); the article itself is dated September 2025.
Used on: Who is acting? · Resources
Now reads: “2.8 million people in the UK are entirely offline; 27% are "narrow" internet users”
Corrected from a previously-published "1.6 million offline / 23% struggle" — those numbers don't appear on Ofcom's page. Down from 13% of the population offline pre-pandemic to 5% now.
Used on: For organisations
Now reads: “8 million people lack the skills to make meaningful use of online services; 77% of the digitally excluded are over 65; 69% live with a disability or impairment”
Corrected the source link — it previously pointed to an NHS Alliance page that doesn't contain these figures.
Used on: Digital health · Beyond broadband
Now reads: “35% of households in Glasgow's social rented housing (circa 38,500) do not use home broadband; 32 RSLs, covering 75% of social housing stock, back the strategy”
Corrected from "65% do not use" — the strategy actually states 65% of social rented households use broadband (p.7/p.4), meaning 35%, around 38,500 households, do not (p.20, the more precise figure). The two numbers were transposed in an earlier pass; re-verified directly against the source PDF.
Used on: Scotland policy · Who is acting?
Now reads: “Connecting Scotland supported more than 60,000 households during the pandemic”
Corrected from "61,000 people" — the official evaluation counts households, not individuals, and the actual number of people reached is higher.
Used on: Why WIRES exists
Now reads: “National Databank cards are available through over 4,000 Digital Inclusion Hubs”
Corrected from a stale "1,600 community organisations" figure — the partner network has grown substantially since that snapshot.
Used on: Get help
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