With the winter fuel allowance of £300,
a pensioners pays £1 187 for their fuel
to keep warm all year including the winter.
If he loses his winter fuel allowance,
how much will he have to pay?
If 7.6 million people
are waiting for NHS operations
and 7.18 million have been waiting for under a year,
how many have been waiting over a year?
If four groups of parents
are waiting 24, 27, 33 and 36 weeks
for their children’s Educational Health Care Plans
to be finalised, instead of the 20 weeks it should be,
how many more weeks on average
are these parents waiting than they should be?
At the end of March 2023,
the number of asylum seekers stuck in the asylum backlog
was 172 758.
The number of asylum seekers waiting less than six months
for a decision was 43 946
How many asylum seekers were stuck in the backlog, had waited more than six months for a decision?
If the government missed 31st October
for targets to improve water, air and wildlife
and still hadn’t met the targets
by the following January 31st,
how much have the government missed their target by so far?
Give your answer in weeks and days.
If 17 trains coming into a station in one day
are cancelled,
out of a total of 96 trains altogether
what is the percentage of trains cancelled?
Give your answer to one decimal point.
In the year up to April 2023,
there were an average of 825 sewage leaks
in rivers in England.
How many sewage links were there per week?
If a wealthy Middle East ruling family
buys a super mansion in London for £120 million
and are able to secure a special deal
so that they avoid paying £18.5 million stamp duty
that they should be paying,
how much is the tax avoidance as a percentage of
the amount they paid for the house?
Peter Sagar
With acknowledgement to Alan Brownjohn and his poem Common Sense (1917)
