Look what happens if you don't embrace decimalisation -


"THE Tories were embarrassed last night after mistakenly claiming more than half of girls in the most deprived areas of Britain fell pregnant before their 18th birthday.

The error came in a Conservative Party document – called Labour's Two Nations – criticising Labour for failing the poor.

The document was released yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron launched a week of attacks on Labour's record on improving life chances for the poorest in society.

The document claimed: "In the most deprived areas, 54 per cent are likely to fall pregnant before the age of 18, compared to just 19 per cent in least deprived areas."

The figures were based on statistics for the ten most deprived areas of the UK – Birmingham, Easington, Hackney, Islington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newham, and Tower Hamlets.

The claim was made three different times in the document.

However, official figures for those areas suggested that the number of under-18 girls who got pregnant was more like 54 per 1,000.

A Conservative spokesman said: "A decimal point was left out in a calculation.

It makes no difference at all to the conclusions of a wide-ranging report"

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