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More or Less: Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

Series 723, episode 0

A Home Office analysis has calculated that domestic violence cost more than £66bn in England and Wales in the year ending 31 March 2017. But how has this been worked out, and does it all add up? And is this a useful way to capture the harms of violence in the home? Tim Harford and the BBC's head of statistics, Robert Cuffe, examine the numbers. An impressive 41 pupils from a state school in East London have secured offers to study at Oxford or Cambridge, it was reported this week.