Prof Sir Ian Diamond, the UK's National Statistician, has suggested 2021 could be the last census, as he is looking into cheaper and more up-to-date alternatives.
His team will work out whether accurate information could be obtained from other sources such as the Ordnance Survey, GP lists, council tax records and driving licence details.
Combined with regular, large-scale population surveys, this could provide better and more detailed information in a cheaper and more timely way, he says. No decisions have yet been taken.

Always gotta set a fine upstanding example for the young 'uns.
Voting fraud never starts too early.......................

Always gotta set a fine upstanding example for the young 'uns.
Voting fraud never starts too early.......................

However, he decided not to risk it all and walked away with £250,000 hours before Envoi fell in the Marsh Novices' Chase.

It said the stores that were closing were in locations where it did not have enough customers. "Given the significant shift to online shopping in recent years - and our belief that this trend will not materially reverse - we do not think the performance of these eight stores can be substantially improved."

Invesco, established as a British firm in the 1930s, is now based in Atlanta in the US with a worldwide portfolio worth £385.4bn.

“He said, ‘These people are buried in the ground [in Slonim],’” John said.
“‘They are buried and flattened.
“‘And here I am living my life.
“‘Whose side is God on?’
“I found that the most appalling thing I had ever heard.”

Bureaucrats all too often believe that respondents to a form receive the form before the ink on its paper thus have ever sent out reminders before the recipient has even seen the form - after all it's not their money that pays for paper and postage but that mystical "someone else".....