Phoebe Arnold

Partnerships Manager

Before joining Full Fact’s policy team in 2019, Phoebe worked as a researcher and project manager on anti-disinformation campaigns in the EU and Nigeria for Avaaz and First Draft. Before that she was Head of Communications and Impact at Full Fact, building our reputation and external partnerships through two elections and two referendums.

19 August 2016

Open Democracy corrects claim about deaths in police custody

We are grateful to Open Democracy for correcting their article.

18 August 2016

The Times sets an example with correction to cost of bed blocking claim

The Times published a front page correction to its article on the cost of bedblocking.

21 April 2016

UK Statistics Authority calls £350m EU membership fee claim "potentially misleading"

UK's statistics watchdog says Vote Leave's use of £350m per week EU membership fee is "potentially misleading" if you leave out the caveat that we get a rebate.

8 February 2016

Data on migrants' benefits: statistics watchdog highlights time lag

The Government has released data to support its claims about migrants and benefits, but the UK Statistics Authority is disappointed about the delay.

18 January 2016

Factchecking the Energy Bill second reading

We've factchecked claims about onshore wind, the Renewables Obligation, energy targets, the cost of energy to consumers, and jobs in the energy industry.

11 December 2015

Health Secretary responds to our correction request on weekend deaths in hospitals

In October we checked the Health Secretary's claim that, "there are 11,000 excess deaths because we do not staff our hospitals properly at weekends." Here's the reply when we asked for a correction.

10 November 2015

Migrants and the benefits system: let's see the evidence

The evidence behind the Prime Minister's claims on EU migrants and benefits needs to be published.

22 October 2015

Statistics Authority calls for research on fit to work deaths

In August the Department for Work and Pensions released statistics about people who died while on benefits, or in the year they came off benefits. But the figures were confusing.

14 July 2015

Who's responsible for scrutinizing our official statistics?

The government has announced a review of the production Britain's economic statistics. The Treasury could assume responsibility for the quality of official figures, and it's argued that this would make production answerable to parliament. But the production of UK statistics is already answerable to parliament through the work of the UK statistics authority.

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28 April 2015

Full Fact Podcast: Episode 4

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Phoebe Arnold

Partnerships Manager

Open Democracy corrects claim about deaths in police custody

The Times sets an example with correction to cost of bed blocking claim

UK Statistics Authority calls £350m EU membership fee claim "potentially misleading"

Data on migrants' benefits: statistics watchdog highlights time lag

Factchecking the Energy Bill second reading

Health Secretary responds to our correction request on weekend deaths in hospitals

Migrants and the benefits system: let's see the evidence

Statistics Authority calls for research on fit to work deaths

Who's responsible for scrutinizing our official statistics?

Full Fact Podcast: Episode 4

Full Fact fights bad information