DATA LAB · RESEARCH & EVIDENCE
Data Lab
Explore six research areas, with published findings, methods and traceable sources.
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How are Britain’s vehicles actually being used?
Mileage, vehicle age, propulsion and repeatability across years.
December 2024–December 2025; 2022-01-01–2025-12-31 roadworthinessOpen labSTATS19 Data LabWhat can police-reported road casualties establish?
Collision and casualty outcomes, with explicit exposure limits.
2016–2025Open labPostcode Risk LabWhat is postcode actually measuring?
Geographic components and persistence using published road and hazard evidence.
2016–2025Open labConnected Car Data LabWhat vehicle data can insurers actually access?
Documented OEM and aggregator routes, signals and coverage evidence.
Source-specific periodsOpen labInsurance Fraud Data LabWhat can free public evidence establish about fraud?
Detected fraud, injury-claim pressure, uninsured driving, ghost broking and customer-harm guardrails.
Evidence released to 2026-09-28Open labPublic Motor DataWhich other public sources are useful?
A register of supporting motor datasets in the approved release.
Source-specific periodsOpen labLatest findings
98,400 detected dishonest claims
£1.16bn reported by ABI members. Detection is not the same as underlying incidence; inspect the revisions and evidence boundary.
Open the free-data lab →MOT MILEAGE · December 2024–December 20257.9× spread between the 90th and 10th percentiles
Annualised mileage in the matched vehicle cohort. Explore the distribution and the two December snapshots.
Inspect MOT mileage →GEOGRAPHIC ROAD EVIDENCE · 2016–2025Do road outcome differences persist across areas?
Explore the released authority-level map and its later-year assessment. These are not postcode-level insurance claims.
Explore the map →Data Observatory
How results reach the site
The Labs and Lens trackers read the same approved release. A failed update retains the last valid published findings.