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.

10 September 2019

The ranking of most popular baby names depends on how you count them

Grouping together various spellings of the name Muhammad can push it up the rankings, but so can counting Harrys and Henrys as one group.

3 September 2019

Is £14 billion being spent on education?

By 2022/23 the government aims to spend £4.3 billion more on education, once you account for inflation, than in 2019/20.

29 August 2019

This post about the decision to increase the state pension age needs some context

Its figures on the pension of the former-permanent secretary to the DWP are correct, his role in the decision making process is less clear cut.

23 August 2019

How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed?

There was more than a 7x increase in the number of emergency admissions taking more than four hours from decision to admit to admission from 2010 to 2018.

23 August 2019

We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade

There were 6.5 million new GP registrations in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But we can’t be certain about these figures.

20 August 2019

Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles

The World Health Organisation says ‘eliminating measles’ means the number of cases in a country is at a level where it can’t circulate easily.

19 August 2019

It’s not government policy to raise the pension age to 75

This was recommended in a report the Centre for Social Justice.

16 August 2019

Survation didn’t say the Liberal Democrats are polling ahead of the Conservatives in Esher and Walton

Survation’s poll was a national survey of voting intention which was then used to model an estimate of what local voting could be – this might not be reliable.

14 August 2019

These figures on MP expenses are incorrect

A post falsely claimed that Scottish Conservative MPs spent far more on travel and accommodation expenses than SNP MPs. Average expenses per MP were lower for Scottish Conservative MPs than SNP ones.

13 August 2019

MP tweets inaccurate quote from quotes website

The text has been circulating online for some time attributed to Monnet, but he doesn’t seem to have said it.

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Claire Milne

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The ranking of most popular baby names depends on how you count them

Is £14 billion being spent on education?

This post about the decision to increase the state pension age needs some context

How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed?

We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade

Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles

It’s not government policy to raise the pension age to 75

Survation didn’t say the Liberal Democrats are polling ahead of the Conservatives in Esher and Walton

These figures on MP expenses are incorrect

MP tweets inaccurate quote from quotes website

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