Ministers will be given a 'data masterclass' in the coming weeks to address the issue of 'statistical illiteracy' within Government.
The crash courses have already been running in the civil service but will now be given to senior ministers in the coming weeks.
It is a direct response to criticisms by Britain's statistics watchdog over the way Covid data has been presented during the pandemic.
The Office for Statistics Regulation argued that data presented to the public was 'not always supported by transparent information provided in a timely manner.'
Testing data and Covid death numbers used to justify the second lockdown were two areas where the Government was scolded in the past.
It is not known who in Cabinet will be attending the masterclasses and if Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be among them.
The country's top statistician said the workshops have proven successful, but also acknowledged the problem won't be fixed like 'flicking a switch'.
'Next slide please', the catchphrase of Professor Chris Whitty (pictured), was one of the key phrases heard during communication of pandemic at the Covid press briefings
Sir Patrick Vallance, No10's Chief Scientific Adviser, suggested there could be a shocking 4,000 deaths per day by December 20 if nothing was done using a now-infamous graph. The scenario was based on the assumption that there would be 1,000 per day by the start of November. Real numbers of people dying were significantly lower
The masterclasses were described by the UK's National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond while being questioned by MPs from The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.
MP for Inverclyde Ronnie Cowan asked what was being done to help Government understand the data presented by statisticians.
