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Could the Chief Executive of RBS be paid £7.38 million?

Stephen Hester, the head of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has been awarded a bonus of 3.6 million shares, equivalent to £963,000 at the current share price. But are claims over the total value of his remuneration accurate?

'Double' trouble? Has David Cameron confused his workless household statistics?

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After David Cameron's PMQ comment that 'many millions of children who live in households where nobody works and indeed that number doubled under the last government', Ed Miliband moved to defend Labour's record. Full Fact investigates the Prime Minster's claims.
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Did the European Court of Human Rights find a violation in just eight UK cases in 2011?

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Following more comments by news outlets and commentators on the European Court of Human Rights' procedures and figures, Full Fact attempts to clear up some of the ambiguities surrounding the reporting of the body.

Mail repeats error on proportion of ESA claimants "fit for work"

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As the welfare reform debate gets testy after the Government's proposed cap on benefit claims is defeated in the House of Lords, the Mail today ran a fresh piece on those on "new incapacity benefits" that were actually "fit for work". Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have learned from past mistakes.
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Are you homeless if your children have to share rooms?

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On yesterday's BBC Today Programme Iain Duncan Smith claimed that the definition of homelessness was that children have to share rooms. The homeless charity Shelter hit back and claimed this was false. Full Fact was naturally intrigued.

Are the benefit cap savings dwarfed by the sums paid to the wealthy?

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The Guardian yesterday pointed out that the savings from a benefit cap would amount to just £270 million. They added that £53 billion in welfare is paid to the richest 50 per cent. Was the newspaper right?

Does the government subsidise airlines by £10 billion?

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Green Leader Caroline Lucas argued on last week's Question Time that the government currently subsidises the aviation industry by £10 billion every year, but is this correct?

Has the FTSE 100 enjoyed its best start to the year for two decades?

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The Daily Express this morning wrote about a "pension boost for millions" citing a three per cent rise in the FTSE 100 Index so far this year - the market's best start, it claimed, for more than two decades. Full Fact investigates whether this is true.

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