Maria Caulfield MP
We’ve fact checked Maria Caulfield six times. Since 2022, we’ve asked her to correct the record once. Join others in her constituency of Lewes 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.
When politicians fall short, we can demand better. Join us and take action for higher standards in public life now.
We’ve fact checked Maria Caulfield six 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.
NHS England was wrong to claim its data showed 3.4 million children are ‘unprotected’ against measles
NHS figures show that more than 3.4 million children under the age of 16 are unprotected and at risk of catching this serious and completely preventable disease
Maria Caulfield, 22 January 2024
Conservative estimate that UK would take 100,000 migrants a year under Labour plan is not reliable
do a deal with the EU, in terms of a quota deal taking an extra 120,000 people
Maria Caulfield, 15 November 2023
No clear evidence of a significant fall in average waiting times
In the last few months, we’ve drastically reduced that length of time of waiting […] we’re able to say confidently that we are getting that length of time down.
Maria Caulfield, 5 July 2023
We’ve asked Maria Caulfield 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 Maria Caulfield about one of her claims. She has yet to correct the record.
Maria Caulfield made a misleading claim about nurse pay on 15 December 2022
It has been 501 days without Maria Caulfield correcting the record
Together we can demand higher standards in public life
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