Claire Milne

Health Editor

Claire joined Full Fact in 2016 and leads on work relating to Health and Social Care. In addition to fact checking work, she takes part in Full Fact’s work with schools, universities and statisticians, speaking about fact checking and the work of Full Fact. She has also appeared on BBC Live Lessons talking to schools about how to spot misinformation.

28 April 2017

How many people use food banks?

We don’t know how many people use food banks in total. The Trussell Trust, which is estimated to run around half of all food banks in the UK, says it had around 560,000 people using its services.

28 April 2017

Are pensioners better off than people of working age?

Research by a number of think tanks has found that the average pensioner income, after housing costs have been included, is now above that of the average person of working age.

26 April 2017

Labour's affordable housing record

The number of affordable homes fell by 420,000 under Labour.

21 April 2017

Primary class sizes in England and Wales

The number of infants in classes of 31 or more in Wales has increased by 18% since 2013. In England it has increased by 32% over the same time.

21 April 2017

Is child and pensioner poverty rising?

There are lots of ways to measure poverty. Some show that child and pensioner poverty have increased slightly in recent years, but others show it has been stable or fallen.

19 April 2017

Is the deficit down by two thirds?

Between 2009/10 and 2015/16 public sector net borrowing decreased from 9.9% of GDP to 3.8%, or by around two thirds.

11 April 2017

Where does councils' money come from to pay for adult social care?

Public spending on social care in England isn’t allocated in the same way that spending on something like health is.

7 April 2017

Will a hard Brexit cost £100 billion?

The most recent figures can’t tell us how much of an impact Brexit has had on the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast for public sector debt.

31 March 2017

Union membership among young people

4% of the UK population aged 16 to 24 were employees and union members in 2015 and 13% of those aged 25 to 34.

29 March 2017

Experts agree school funding is falling per-pupil

The IFS, National Audit Office, Education Policy Institute and Public Accounts Committee all agree that real per-pupil spending in schools will be reduced in the next few years.

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Claire Milne

Health Editor

How many people use food banks?

Are pensioners better off than people of working age?

Labour's affordable housing record

Primary class sizes in England and Wales

Is child and pensioner poverty rising?

Is the deficit down by two thirds?

Where does councils' money come from to pay for adult social care?

Will a hard Brexit cost £100 billion?

Union membership among young people

Experts agree school funding is falling per-pupil

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