Stop twisting statistics, MPs tell Government Labour leader Ed Miliband's comparison of UK and Spanish youth unemployment figures was also questioned, it pointed out. Prime Minister David Cameron recently had his knuckles rapped by another regulator about claims he made regarding economic growth. Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, the committee's chairman, said: "We are expecting statistics officials to insist that press releases tell the true picture. Politicians tend to promote the statistics that best present their case. Finding the whole truth about government statistics is not always easy, and it should be. The numbers may be perfectly true but the act of selecting certain numbers distorts the true picture. This is important when those numbers are being used to justify a particular policy, a particular apportioning of resources. In some cases, spinning reduces the story behind the statistics to such an extent that the picture is no longer true. The report said: "Wider and deeper improvements are still needed to the presentation and explanation of government statistics if public trust in them, and therefore in public policy, is to be earned and kept. Government statistics press releases do not always give a true and fair picture of the story behind the statistics. We recommend that press officers and statistics producers work together much more closely to ensure that press releases give an accurate and meaningful picture. The committee said it was "disappointed" by a botched re-launch of the ONS's website which officials conceded had made it even harder than before to find the right information in an understandable format. Such was the plethora of sources of data, finding it could be confusing even for expert users and lay people were left "confused and disengaged."