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Harriet Clugston

Data and Investigations Editor

Harriet Clugston was data and investigations editor for NationalWorld until summer 2023, leading on investigative projects and data-driven journalism, including our interactive charts.

She is a multi-award winning journalist, having won a Royal Statistical Society Statistical Excellence in Journalism Award, as well as Data Journalist of the Year at the Regional Press Awards (alongside Aimee Stanton, another member of NationalWorld.com’s data and investigations team at the time). She has also been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award, for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards, and for the Private Eye Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism while leading the wider National World investigations team in a project to expose the shortcomings in the criminal justice system’s efforts to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking.

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MPs who lose seat to see ‘winding-down’ payments doubled. Credit: Kim Mogg/Adobe

Explainer MPs who lose seat or stand down to see 'winding down' payments doubled
More than 70 MPs standing down at the next election will, for the first time, get a 'golden goodbye'.
Ralph Blackburn

A watchdog has upheld concerns raised by NationalWorld about the transparency and quality of CPS rape figures. Image: Mark Hall/NationalWorld/AdobeStock

Exclusive NationalWorld complaint prompts CPS to improve rape statistics

Misleading crime recording practices across police forces in England and Wales have been painting a false picture of the criminal justice system’s already bleak record on violent sexual offences. Composite image: Mark Hall/Adobe Stock/NationalWorld.

Exclusive The lesser crimes secretly included in Home Office rape charge rates

The Home Office says it can now publish crime data it has sat on for six years after a NationalWorld investigation (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

How we forced the government’s hand on misleading rape charge data Harriet Clugston

The Attorney General Victoria Prentis has told Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry that the Home Office will publish transparent rape charge data after Thornberry wrote to her raising our investigation.

Exclusive Government to publish transparent rape data after NationalWorld probe

Breast cancer survival rates have improved in the UK over the past two decades (Photo: NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Survival rates are rising - but breast cancer 'is not a done deal'

People in England face a postcode lottery for diabetes risk, with patients in some areas five times more likely to be in danger than in others.

Diabetes: 16 England areas where people are most at risk

House prices for first-time buyers rose last month - but where are the cheapest places to get on the property ladder? (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

20 areas of Britain with the cheapest houses for first-time buyers

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes house prices data every month (images: NationalWorld)

Explainer Are house prices falling near you? Check with our interactive tool

Medical staff have been reporting women to police if they suspect they have had illegal abortions (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Doctors told to 'think carefully' over illegal abortion police reports

Caroline Nokes MP (pictured) said she would raise the crime recorded following Zdenka Yabani's suicide with the Home Office. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

MP to raise pregnant woman’s suicide with Home Office

Freedom of Information requests have revealed police launched dozens of investigations into women they suspected of ending their pregnancies (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Illegal abortions: dozens of women investigated by police
Women’s mental health charity WISH described the figures as “alarming”, adding it is “deeply concerned about the criminalisation of women who seek to end their own pregnancies whilst distressed”.
Harriet Clugston

Zdenka Yabani died by suicide in 2018 after jumping in front of a train while eight months pregnant. (Image: INS News Agency Ltd)

Exclusive Police record illegal abortion after pregnant woman hit by train

The judge said it was is job to apply Parliament's laws when passing sentence in Stoke-on-Trent today (12 June).

Judge’s sentence in full as woman jailed for illegal abortion

The woman pleaded guilty to procuring an illegal abortion during the first Covid lockdown. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

English woman jailed for 28 months over illegal abortion

The vast majority of NHS trusts in England are failing to meet cancer treatment waiting targets (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Cancer waiting times: 18 hospitals with the worst treatment delays

Food inflation: UK supermarkets are continuing to put up prices on the budget food and drink products (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Supermarkets continue to raise value range prices at pace

Our interactive price tracker reveals how prices have changed at Asda, Aldi, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury's over the past year for 70 staple products. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Interactive chart reveals how supermarkets compare on food price rises

24 hours in Bergamo, Italy: what to do in the medieval city

24 hours in Bergamo, Italy: what to do in the medieval city

The Community trade union, which primarily represents staff working in the 14 prisons run by private contractors such as Serco and Sodexo, wrote to the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk earlier this month, about violence against its members. Credit: Kim Mogg/Adobe

Exclusive Prison union requests government meeting over staff safety concerns

How does the UK’s inflation rate for food compare to those in Europe? (images: Adobe/PA/AFP/Getty Images)

Analysis UK food inflation ‘worst in Europe’ after latest CPI figures

Labour's Emily Thornberry has written to Attorney General Victoria Prentis asking her to investigate whether suspects charged with non-rape crimes are being included in official rape charge rate data. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Emily Thornberry calls for government probe into rape charge rates

UK food inflation fell slightly in April - but it is still rising for many key food and drink items (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe)

15 food products with biggest rise in inflation including staple items
Potatoes, pasta and sugar are among some of the staple food products where inflation rates were still increasing in April according to the ONS.
Harriet Clugston

Our analysis of mental health treatment data should be a "wake up call" for government, one think tank has said. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Exclusive 'An injustice': Northerners face 3-month delays for mental health care

Parliament has revealed how much it spent on the Queen's lying in state - and it was not included in the government's £162m estimate of the funeral costs. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Queen’s funeral: setting up queue to see coffin cost Parliament £1.3m

The Treasury said government departments spent £162 million on Queen Elizabeth II's funeral last year. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Queen's funeral cost government £162m - full breakdown

Emergency services spent tens of millions of pounds on the Queen's funeral and mourning period. (Image:NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Queen's funeral cost emergency services more than £75m

Scottish and Northern Irish singers have not represented the UK at Eurovision for decades (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Eurovision: why does UK snub Scottish and Northern Irish singers?

Eurovision in numbers: from the gender of acts to whether solo artists or groups are the most successful, this is the UK's entries over the years in charts (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Eurovision final 2023: the UK's acts over the years in charts and numbers

In one part of the country only one out of every 26 crimes is solved by police. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

This chart shows how few crimes police solve where you live

Labour's Emily Thornberry (right) is among those calling on the Home Office (led by Suella Braverman, left) to publish figures on suspected rapists charged with alternative offences (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Getty)

Home Office under pressure over rapists charged with non-rape crimes

One in 10 rapists charged over the last five years were actually charged with non-rape offences (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe)

1 in 10 rapists 'charged' by police actually face non-rape charges

Voters will soon be unable to vote if they do not first show an approved form of photo ID (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Voter ID: what are the new rules - and how do I apply for a free ID?

Labour’s attack advert on Rishi Sunak has come under fire. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Fact check: is Labour’s child abuse attack ad on Rishi Sunak true?

Supermarket value range food prices rise 23% in a year

The former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioners have spoken out about the government's Illegal Migration Bill (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Illegal Migration Bill ‘gift to criminals’ says slavery czar

Politicians and journalists have a responsibility to use statistics well. (Image: Adobe/NationalWorld/Kim Mogg_

Why good statistics on rape matter Harriet Clugston

Ministry of Justice data has revealed how often rapists in England and Wales get community sentences (Image: Adobe/NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive Revealed: the rapists getting off lightly in England and Wales

Rape charge rates: it is not true that only 1.6% of rapists are ever charged by the police.

Fact check: why Labour's claims on rape charge rates were misleading

Council tax bills will be rising across England in April.

Revealed: the areas with the most expensive and cheapest council tax

It is the last time that regular estimates of coronavirus are being published, as the long-running infection survey – dubbed the “envy of the world” for its success in tracking the virus – has been halted. Credit: Kim Mogg

Final Covid-19 data shows infections in England at highest in 2023

The UK House Price Index shows the value of sold properties fell by 1.1% in January (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

27 UK areas where house prices fell the most last month

Offenders convicted of crimes under the Modern Slavery Act have in some cases walked away with only a fine. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Exclusive ‘Shockingly slim chance at justice’ for victims of modern slavery

Charges brought in under 1 in 50 modern slavery cases - a record low

The East Midlands and Wales are among the regions and nations that have seen the biggest rise in economic inactivity. (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe)

The UK regions worst hit by rise in economic inactivity

The Scottish and Welsh governments have urged the Home Office to appoint a new anti-slavery commissioner to provide scrutiny while it tries to tackle small boat crossings. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Devolved nations slam ‘unacceptable’ delay filling top slavery job

Procurement giant Serco was paid almost £180,000 by TfL when the Queen’s death delayed an electric bike project (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Delay to London e-bike launch after Queen’s death cost taxpayer £180k

Operation London Bridge: the Queen’s funeral last year cost Transport for London (TfL) millions of pounds, an FOI request has revealed. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

Exclusive: Queen’s funeral cost Transport for London almost £9m

Operation London Bridge: the fire brigade in London spent £1 million on the Queen’s funeral in 2022 (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Exclusive: Queen’s funeral cost London Fire Brigade £1 million

Child marriages: new rules will make it illegal for under-18s to get married in England and Wales (Images: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Explainer How many child marriages happen every year in the UK?

Dan Walker is among the over 18,000 cyclists injured on Britain’s roads each year (Image: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

Explainer How many cyclists are injured on UK roads each year?

Our NHS Wales tracker will be updated with the latest data throughout the 2022/23 winter to track pressure on the health service (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall)

How the NHS is coping in Wales this winter - interactive data