Older age groups are largely responsible for rise in participation and starts.
How to interpret the youth unemployment rate
EconomyFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
Divorce fees: who pays?
Full Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
Annual net migration above 250,000?
ImmigrationFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
How many more consultants are in A&E?
HealthHealth minister Dr Dan Poulter claimed there are now 414 more A&E doctors than in 2009. What do the figures say?
Nurses in the NHS: up or down?
HealthThe Prime Minister claims there are 2,000 more nurses than at the election. Labour claims they’ve fallen in number. There’s more to the figures than meets the eye.
Does childcare cost more than the average mortgage?
EducationThe claim was covered extensively in the media. Do the figures stack up?
Health minister needs to correct ‘incurable’ hepatitis C claim
HealthFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
PISA: Can we compare the UK’s education performance with other countries?
EducationSpotlight on PISA, with context, key facts and main sources of information.
Including: what and who PISA measures; pros and cons; UK and Wales PISA rankings.
Estimating the costs of regulation to British business
EconomyFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
The welfare budget
EconomySpotlight on the welfare budget with context, key facts and main sources of information.
Including: welfare spending versus social security; how big the budget is; and who pays out the money.
Factchecking the Oscars: 21 million slaves worldwide?
CrimeFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
Why are more people using food banks?
Economy, HealthFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
Has the legal aid budget ‘grown and grown and grown’?
CrimeFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
Getting higher: drug use among the middle-aged
Crime, HealthThe Mail reports a growing number of over-40s are taking illegal drugs. What do the figures say?
New BBC guide to Freedom of Information Requests
Full Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere
The number of girls at risk of FGM is hard to estimate
Crime, HealthOne estimate of the number of girls in England and Wales who are at risk of female genital mutilation is 24,000. But there are problems with this number, and a scarcity of other sources on the topic.
The scale of UK sickness absence
Economy, HealthFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere.
Is the Universal Credit roll-out costing £190,000 per claimant?
EconomyThe government has claimed that its flagship welfare reform policy could save the taxpayer as much as £38 billion over the next decade, but today a Labour Treasury spokesperson said that it was in fact costing £190,000 per claimant
Regional Growth Fund cash: allocated, but unspent?
EconomyThe BBC and the Minister appear to disagree on how much progress the Regional Growth Fund is making.
Stop and search: the racial imbalance
CrimeSpotlight on police stop and search, with context, key facts and main sources of information.
Including: the laws governing stop and search, and racial imbalance.
How crucial to Scottish public spending are reliable oil and gas receipts?
EconomyThe future of North Sea oil and gas has been the unknown factor underpinning many disagreements between the Yes and No camps in the Scottish independence debate. So just how vital is it to the amount of money that would be available to a sovereign Scottish government?
Will millions of patients miss out on GP appointments this year?
HealthIs it possible that patients totalling up to half the UK population will miss out on an appointment with their GP this year?
800% increases aren’t always as big as they look
CrimeFull Fact Live: factchecking in brief from Full Fact and elsewhere.