Abbas Panjwani

Fact Checker (former)

Abbas joined Full Fact in 2018. Before this, he worked as a social researcher, collecting quantitative and qualitative research to help inform policy development and evaluation for government departments and other public bodies. Most recently he worked as research manager at Ofgem, Great Britain’s energy regulator, and has also worked on projects for BIS, the Home Office and the Competition and Markets Authority.

4 January 2023

Rishi Sunak’s New Year speech fact checked

We’ve looked at some of the claims made by the PM in his first speech of 2023.

1 November 2022

UK Government doesn’t retain £50bn of Scottish taxes

Posts on social media overcount and double count Scottish revenues while undercounting Scottish expenditure.

28 October 2022

Contrails can last for hours

A false claim that contrails, the lines of frozen water vapour which form behind planes, disappear quickly is being used to suggest that chemtrails exist.

14 October 2022

Senior SNP politicians mislead on renewable energy generation

Scotland produces about as much renewable electricity as the total amount of electricity it consumes—but it also generates electricity from nuclear power stations and fossil fuels.

29 September 2022

Liz Truss wrong to repeatedly say energy bills are capped at £2,500

This figure is based on the amount a “typical” household with average use will pay—but total bills aren’t capped.

22 September 2022

Health secretary’s claim on health spending fact checked

Dr Thérèse Coffey said health and social care account for 40% of government day-to-day spending. That’s only true if you don’t count spending on things like pensions.