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Misleading claims about Serco’s role in Test and Trace resurface
if £37 billion can be found to pay Serco for a failed track and trace system, the money must be available to pay NHS staff properly
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 March 2021
There’s not enough evidence to say the net zero emissions target will be missed by 49 years
“Despite pledging to meet net zero emissions by 2050, the government are currently on track to meet that target only by 2099. Can we afford to wait another 79 years before we reach net zero in this country?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 29 January 2020
Corbyn claim about Boris Johnson’s climate change scepticism needs context
"Unfortunately [Boris Johnson’s] vivid imagination seems to have taken over from his memory because he might recall saying that climate change is a primitive fear without foundation.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 5 February 2020
Corbyn incorrectly says UK has worst recycling in the EU
“We waste more food than any other country in Europe and we have… the lowest levels of recycling.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 18 November 2019
Labour draws unsubstantiated link between dental costs and hospital admissions
One in five patients delay going to the dentist because they can’t afford to see one - meaning 100,000 end up in hospital with preventable problems with their teeth.
Jeremy Corbyn, 16 November 2019
Paying £500 million more a week for drugs post-Brexit is based on a fairly extreme scenario
This Trump alliance is Thatcherism on steroids and could send £500 million a week from our NHS to big drugs companies.
Jeremy Corbyn, 11 November 2019
The USA doesn’t “allow” maggots in orange juice—it sets levels at which enforcement is mandatory
"Given the chance, they’ll slash food standards to match those of the United States, where what are called “acceptable levels” of rat hairs in paprika and maggots in orange juice are allowed.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 5 November 2019
Spending on services for young people in England has fallen since 2010
“The Tories have slashed £1 billion from youth services"
Jeremy Corbyn, 5 November 2019
Claim about UK wealth and poverty is flawed
“14 million people are living in poverty”
Jeremy Corbyn, 24 September 2019
Top CEOs make average worker salary in three days
"We live in a country where the top chief executives now pocket in just two-and-a-half days what an average worker earns in a whole year”
Jeremy Corbyn, 24 September 2019
Labour makes misleading claim on solar energy
Solar installations are down by 94%, onshore wind is coming to a grinding halt, and they have failed to back the very important, very exciting and innovative Swansea bay tidal lagoon.
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 June 2019
GP numbers: up or down?
“Today, we learned that GP numbers are experiencing their first sustained fall for 50 years.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 May 2019
Did Margaret Thatcher say bus users over the age of 25 were failures?
Margaret Thatcher once said anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 April 2019
Have the most deprived councils seen the biggest reductions in funding?
“Official figures show that nine of the ten most deprived council areas in this country have seen cuts that are almost three times the average of any other council.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 10 April 2019
Are pay packets growing?
“May I congratulate the Prime Minister on…a record of wages lower today than they were 10 years ago?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 16 May 2018
Would free bus travel save young people £1,000 a year?
“This policy will make a real difference to young people who tend to be lower paid, in insecure work, and spend a higher proportion of their income on travel.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 April 2018
Small businesses and Brexit
“I hope that she will address the concerns of 94% of small and medium-size businesses that say the Government are ignoring their concerns about how we leave the EU.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 February 2018
Fiddled A&E statistics?
"Now the UK Statistics Authority say the numbers may be worse because the figures have been fiddled."
Jeremy Corbyn, 24 January 2018
Did a Labour-run council sign a PFI contract with Carillion in December?
"For the record, Leeds has not signed a contract with Carillion. It is the Government who have been handing out contracts."
Jeremy Corbyn, 17 January 2018
Emergency admissions to hospitals from care homes are up 62%
“The number of elderly people being rushed into A&E from care homes has risen by 62% since the Tories took power.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 10 January 2018
Is the NHS recruiting enough new GPs?
“The government promised to recruit an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020, where are they?"
Jeremy Corbyn, 20 December 2017
How many children are homeless in England, Scotland and Wales?
“One hundred and twenty-eight thousand children will spend Christmas without a home to call their own—that is up 60% on 2010"
Jeremy Corbyn, 13 December 2017
A&E waiting times: are they getting longer?
“The number of people waiting more than four hours in A&E has gone up by 557% since 2010.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 15 November 2017
What’s happened to fire services since 2010?
“Under this Government, there are now 11,000 fewer firefighters in England than there were in 2010, and deaths in fires increased by 20% last year.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 15 November 2017
Are the super-rich paying less income tax?
“The amount of tax paid by the super-rich in income tax has fallen from 4.4 billion to 3.5 billion since 2009.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 1 November 2017
Young people in record levels of debt?
“Young people are in record levels of debt. This week, the Financial Conduct Authority warned of a ‘pronounced build-up of indebtedness amongst the younger age group’ to fund ‘essential living costs’.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 18 October 2017
Is there a long list of people urging a pause on Universal Credit?
“There is a very long list of people urging the Prime Minister to pause Universal Credit, including Citizens Advice, the Trussell Trust, John Major and, I understand, two dozen of her own Back Benchers.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 18 October 2017
Is the UK economy in the slow lane?
“Under this Prime Minister, we have a weak economy. UK growth is currently the worst amongst the 10 largest EU economies.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 18 October 2017
Is Universal Credit leading to rent arrears?
“Half of all council tenants on Universal Credit are at least a month in arrears in their rent.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 11 October 2017
How much does the Universal Credit helpline cost?
“Absurdly, the universal credit helpline costs claimants 55p per minute for the privilege of trying to get someone to help them claim what they believe they are entitled to.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 11 October 2017
Are household savings at their lowest in 50 years?
“Household savings are lower than at any time in the last 50 years”
Jeremy Corbyn, 13 September 2017
Energy companies profits at their highest level ever?
“Last week the profit margins of big six energy companies hit their highest ever level.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 6 September 2017
Are we short of 40,000 nurses?
“There's already a shortage of 40,000 nurses across the UK.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 6 September 2017
Executive pay: power to the shareholders?
“When she became leader the Prime Minister pledged, and I quote: “I want to make shareholder votes on corporate pay not just advisory but binding” and she put it into her manifesto. That manifesto has now been dumped… She’s gone back on her word.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 6 September 2017
Can you be in the single market without being an EU member?
"The single market is dependent on membership of the EU."
Jeremy Corbyn, 23 July 2017
Are most working age people in poverty also in work?
"One in eight workers in the UK, that is 3.8 million people in work, are now living in poverty. 55% of people in poverty are in working households."
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 July 2017
Local authorities' budgets are roughly 26% lower since 2010
“Local authorities… have had their budgets cut by 40% [since 2010].”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 June 2017
Were fire safety audits and fire authority budgets cut by a quarter?
“Under [Theresa May’s] predecessor fire safety audits and inspections were cut by a quarter."
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 June 2017
A&E waiting times
With more people waiting more than four hours in A&E...
Jeremy Corbyn, 26 April 2017
Primary class sizes in England and Wales
“Seven years of Tory failure and broken promises have left our schools in a terrible state. Hundreds of thousands of our children are paying the price, crammed into classrooms like sardines.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 21 April 2017
Are six million people earning less than the living wage?
...six million people earning less than the living wage...
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 April 2017
Is child and pensioner poverty rising?
“Child poverty is up and pensioner poverty is up.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 April 2017
Have wages fallen in the past ten years?
Yet she can’t explain why people’s wages are lower today than they were ten years ago...
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 April 2017
Police funding: up or down?
“Between 2015 and 2018 there’ll be a real-terms cut in central government funding to police forces of £330 million.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 29 March 2017
Experts agree school funding is falling per-pupil
“say that funding per pupil is reducing in real terms and goes on to say schools budgets will be cut by £3 billion, equivalent to 8% by 2020"
"If the Prime Minister is right then the parents are wrong, the teachers are wrong, the IFS is wrong, the National Audit Office is wrong, the Education Policy Institute is wrong, and now the Public Accounts Committee, which includes eight Conservative members in it, is also wrong.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 29 March 2017
Tax cuts: corporation tax, inheritance, capital gains and the bank levy
“Can the PM explain to parents why cutting capital gains tax, cutting inheritance tax, cutting corporation tax, cutting bank levy are all more important than our children’s future?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 March 2017
Schools funding: a manifesto breach?
“The manifesto on which [the PM] fought the last election promised that ‘under a future Conservative government, the amount of money following your child into school will be protected’... she was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 March 2017
“Average working families” and the Budget
“According to IFS figures, average working families will be £1,400 worse off as a result of her Budget that’s been produced last week”.
Jeremy Corbyn, 15 March 2017
Women in the Commons
“...the Labour party has more women MPs than all other parties combined in this house, and a shadow cabinet of which half the members are women.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 March 2017
Are there enough school places being created?
“The National Audit Office tell us that a very large number of new school places are needed—420,000… At the same time, per pupil spending is falling in real terms.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 March 2017
Class sizes under the Conservatives
“We have a crisis in school places and class sizes soaring thanks to [Theresa May’s] government.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 March 2017
Government borrowing
By 2020 [the government] will have borrowed more and increased the national debt by the total borrowing of all Labour governments
Jeremy Corbyn, 1 March 2017
Amendments to PIP legislation
“Last week the government sneaked out a decision to overrule a court decision to extend Personal Independence Payments to people with severe mental health conditions. [This government] seems unable to find the money to support 160,000 people with debilitating mental health conditions.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 1 March 2017
Jeremy Corbyn, 1 March 2017
What did the courts rule on PIP?
“The court ruled that the payment should be made because the people who are going to benefit from it were suffering overwhelming psychological distress.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 1 March 2017
Hospitals: safety versus quality
“Nine out of 10 NHS trusts are unsafe”.
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 February 2017
Who's cutting hospital bed numbers?
“When hospitals are struggling to provide essential care why is the government cutting the number of beds in our National Health Service?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 February 2017
A shortage of midwives?
“The Royal College of Midwives estimates there is a shortage of 3,500 midwives in England.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 February 2017
Nursing training places
“In reality 10,000 fewer places have been filled because there are fewer applications.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 22 February 2017
How many A&Es are going to close?
“One in six Accident and Emergency units in England are set to be closed or downgraded.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 8 February 2017
How many earn below the living wage?
“The threat to workers’ rights are there every day. Six million earning less than a living wage.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 25 January 2017
Fewer doctors and nurses working in mental health
“Under this government there’s 6,000 fewer nurses working in mental health, 400 fewer doctors working in mental health”
Jeremy Corbyn, 11 January 2017
A&E waiting times: better or worse?
“1.8 million people had to wait longer than four hours last year in A&E departments”
Jeremy Corbyn, 11 January 2017
Social care funding
“The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to be aware that £4.6 billion was cut from the social care budget in the last parliament”
Jeremy Corbyn, 14 December 2016
Poverty: up or down?
Under her government child poverty is rising and now covers 4 million children across the country
Jeremy Corbyn, 30 November 2016
Are one million people without social care?
“Part of the reason for the strain on our National Health Service is that more than one million people are not receiving the social care they need.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 23 November 2016
£10 billion or £4.5 billion: what's going on with NHS spending?
“The Health select committee ... says it’s actually £4.5 billion, not £10 billion. There’s quite a big difference there."
Jeremy Corbyn, 23 November 2016
Social care and delayed transfers from hospital
“In the last four years the number of patients unable to be transferred from hospital due to a lack of adequate social care increased by one third.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 23 November 2016
Spending on Housing Benefit
“Mr Speaker, the Housing Benefit bill has gone up by more than £4bn because of high levels of rent and the necessity of supporting people in that.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 2 November 2016
Welfare sanctions and homelessness
“Mr Speaker, according to Sheffield Hallam University study, one in five claimants that have been sanctioned became homeless as a result of it.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 2 November 2016
Food banks: hard to say whether rising use reflects rising demand
“This week, Mr Speaker, Oxford University studies found that there’s a direct link between rising levels of benefit sanctions and rising demand for food banks. A million people accessed a food bank last year and received a food parcel, only 40,000 did so in 2010”.
Jeremy Corbyn, 2 November 2016
NHS trusts in deficit
NHS Trusts are in a financial crisis. According to NHS Providers, it seems to be the worst financial crisis in NHS history. 80% of acute hospitals now in deficit. There was a time in 2010, when the NHS was in surplus. What happened?
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 October 2016
40% of mental health trusts have seen their incomes fall
“Analysis by the King’s Fund suggests that 40% of our mental health trusts had their budgets cut last year”
Jeremy Corbyn, 19 October 2016
Japanese-owned companies in the UK
“140,000 people in Britain work for Japanese-owned companies. They've made it clear that those jobs and investment depend on Single Market access.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 October 2016
"Naming and shaming" companies with foreign workers
“The Home Secretary’s flagship announcement [at the Conservative Party Conference] was to name and shame companies that employ foreign workers.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 October 2016
Leaving the single market
“The Treasury forecast [for leaving to the European single market] is a £66 billion loss to the economy [and] 7.5% of the GDP.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 October 2016
Passports for the NHS?
“Yesterday, we learned that pregnant women will be forced to hand over their passports at NHS hospitals. No ultrasound without photographic ID—heavily pregnant women sent home on icy roads to get a passport. Are these really the actions of a country where it doesn’t matter where you were born?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 12 October 2016
Council house replacements
“...council homes are sold off without being replaced...”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2016
Six million jobs pay less than the living wage
“There are now six million working people earning less than the living wage...”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2016
An explosion of temporary, insecure jobs?
“...there’s been an explosion of temporary, insecure jobs, nearly one million people on zero hour contracts.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2016
House building: at its lowest level since the 1920s?
“...house building has fallen to its lowest level since the 1920s...”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2016
What’s happening to inequality?
“People are fed up with a so-called free market system, that has produced grotesque inequality...”
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2016
Poor children do worse in areas that have grammar schools
“The evidence, Mr Speaker, of the effects of selection is this. In Kent, which has a grammar school system, 27% of the pupils on free school meals get 5 good GCSEs, compared with 45% in London.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 14 September 2016
The number of teachers in English schools
“[There is] a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention”
Jeremy Corbyn, 14 September 2016
The government’s proposals could change what we know about selection
“The Secretary of State for Education suggested on Monday that new grammar schools may be required to set up feeder primary schools in poorer areas. Will the children in those feeder primaries get automatic places at grammar school or will they be subject to selection?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 14 September 2016
Charity says 67% of refuges might close
“Women’s Aid has said that two thirds of women’s refuges are going to close because of the benefit cap when it comes into force and that 87% of women and children who are in those refuges will suffer as a result of it.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 7 September 2016
£9 billion in housing benefit to private landlords
“Devastating figures released over this summer show that £9.3 billion of public money is paid through housing benefit directly into the pockets of private landlords.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 7 September 2016
Zero hours contracts: is the UK "the odd one out"?
“Zero hours contracts are not allowed in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Spain. It seems we’re the odd one out.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 16 June 2016
How much of your paid holiday is down to the EU?
[Because of the EU] over 26 million workers in Britain benefit from being entitled to 28 days of paid leave
Jeremy Corbyn, 2 June 2016
Are sixth forms and further education colleges better funded?
“Could I kindly bring him back to the question I asked from Callum, and point out to him that there has been a 10% cut in real terms in sixth form and further education... during his time as Prime Minister?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 9 March 2016
Adult skills funding: what happened in the last Parliament?
“Could I kindly bring him back to the question I asked from Callum, and point out to him that… adult education has been cut by 35% during his time as Prime Minister?”
Jeremy Corbyn, 9 March 2016
Is Google paying 3% tax?
“Independent experts have suggested that Google is paying an effective tax rate on its UK profits of around 3%.”
Jeremy Corbyn, 27 January 2016
How much money does legal aid save the country?
"For every £1 spent on legal aid the state saves £6"
Jeremy Corbyn, 6 January 2016
The government defence on flood defences
"We were … surprised to hear you claim at Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon that you 'are spending more on flood defence schemes'. This is simply a misrepresentation of what has happened since you took office five and a half years ago."
Jeremy Corbyn, 6 January 2016
Social care funding: how did the sector react to the latest plans?
"The problem is to do with adult social care. This morning on BBC Radio 4, the NHS Confederation said that 'cuts to social care and public health will continue to pile more pressure on hospitals and will worsen deficits in the acute sector'."
Jeremy Corbyn, 16 December 2015
Will changes to tax credits cost families £1,300 a year?
"The Tory conference was a feast of spin and deception. Fake claims to be on the side of working people while robbing three million low paid families of £1,300 a year with the Tax Credit cuts."
Jeremy Corbyn, 9 October 2015
Are more people self-employed?
"One in seven of the labour force now work for themselves."
Jeremy Corbyn, 29 September 2015
The state of private rented homes
"A third of private rented homes are not meeting basic standards of health and safety"
Jeremy Corbyn, 28 September 2015
How large is the housing gap?
"Does the Prime Minister not think it is time to reconsider the question of the funding of the administration of housing, as well as, of course, the massive gap of 100,000 units a year between what is needed and what is being built?"
Jeremy Corbyn, 16 September 2015
Child poverty—it's up but it's also down
"Child poverty rose by half-a-million under the last government to over four million."
Jeremy Corbyn, 15 September 2015
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