Thérèse Coffey MP
We’ve fact checked Thérèse Coffey three times. Since 2022, we’ve asked her to correct the record once. Join others in her constituency of Suffolk Coastal to ask her to stand up for honesty in public life.
Your trust should be earned. Any MP making serious claims in public debate should be prepared to get their facts right, back up what they say with evidence and correct their mistakes.
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We’ve fact checked Thérèse Coffey three times
Full Fact scrutinises claims made by politicians on all sides of political debate. We prioritise claims that have the potential to cause most harm.
Our team isn’t able to monitor and fact check all claims made by every politician, so this list isn’t exhaustive. It isn’t accurate to use these examples to draw comparisons about the overall behaviour of individual MPs or political parties.
Health secretary’s claim on health spending fact checked
The money that the government spends through the Department for Health and Social Care is around 40% of our day-to-day spending.
Thérèse Coffey, 22 September 2022
Thérèse Coffey wrong to claim employment is up over the pandemic
And despite the challenges of the last two years, unemployment is down and employment is up, and there are 662,000 more employees on company payrolls and earning more money than before the pandemic.
Thérèse Coffey, 10 April 2022
Universal Credit: Do politicians' claims about working more hours add up?
"£20 a week is about two hours extra work every week, we will be seeing what we can do help people perhaps secure those extra hours”
Thérèse Coffey, 13 September 2021
We’ve asked Thérèse Coffey to correct the record once
It’s important that those making claims in public life correct their mistakes. We follow up on our fact checks to ask politicians and media organisations to issue corrections when they get things wrong.
We have been in touch with Thérèse Coffey about one of her claims. She has yet to correct the record.
Dr Thérèse Coffey made a false claim about employment figures on 10 April 2022
It has been 768 days without Thérèse Coffey correcting the record
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