Ledgers: the live data pages

Five pages that are rebuilt by machine from the documents themselves, with the source, date and file hash behind every figure. Articles explain; these pages keep count.

How close to the edge is each council?

Every English council against five published markers of financial distress: section 114 notices, statutory interventions, Best Value Notices, Exceptional Financial Support agreed by the ministry since 2020-21, and reserves against net revenue expenditure. A pie of where the bail-out money has gone, a bar for every council, and a ranked table with every marker linked to its document. Refreshed weekly.

Detected small-boat arrivals: the daily ledger

Every day since 2018 from the Home Office's own tables: people, boats and people per boat, reconciled to the final quarterly figures, with every revision kept. Refreshed daily.

Small boats: recorded spending and a labelled scenario

What the NAO and the Home Office have published about asylum-system spending, a register of where the money flows, and an explicitly hypothetical 12 to 60 month scenario with every assumption sourced or labelled. Refreshed with the quarterly tables.

National context: the polls, the lead and the seat arithmetic

Outside the council beat and fenced as such: a ledger of published polls cited to the pollsters' tables, a poll of polls, and a seat calculator on the 2024 result. Refreshed weekly.

Asylum accommodation watch

Where supported asylum seekers and the large military sites are, against the party holding each place's seats. Distribution, never intent. Refreshed weekly.

Each page carries its own methodology, sources and downloads. Errors are corrected in place and logged in the corrections log.