Economy

Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid?

The UK has posted record export figures, but that’s not very remarkable

Is UK economic growth higher than in Europe?

Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid?

The UK has posted record export figures, but that’s not very remarkable

Is UK economic growth higher than in Europe?

25th Jul 2018

How the jobs market for young people has changed since 2010

19th Jul 2018

This claim about the £2,000 cost of a hard Brexit comes from a typo

23rd Aug 2018

Do pensioners in the rest of the EU get more cash than the elderly in the UK?

15th Aug 2018

Fair fares? How much are season tickets increasing by?

25th Jul 2018

How the jobs market for young people has changed since 2010

19th Jul 2018

This claim about the £2,000 cost of a hard Brexit comes from a typo

23rd Aug 2018

Do pensioners in the rest of the EU get more cash than the elderly in the UK?

15th Aug 2018

Fair fares? How much are season tickets increasing by?

Tax

Tax dodging: how big is the problem?

How much has the government recouped from tax evasion and avoidance?

Are taxpayers paying less income tax than in 2010?

Do the top 1% of earners pay 28% of the tax burden?

Debates

Brexit

23rd Jul 2018

This viral image showing the cost of different Brexit deals is wrong in a lot of ways

It misreports figures which are themselves based on highly uncertain analysis.

31st Aug 2018

This claim about the UK's EU contribution is correct, but meaningless

28th Aug 2018

Everything you might want to know about the UK's trade with the EU

Welfare

28th Apr 2017

How many people use food banks?

We don’t know how many people use food banks in total. The Trussell Trust, which is estimated to run around half of all food banks in the UK, says it had around 560,000 people using its services in 2016/17.

17th Nov 2017

Is unemployment the lowest it has been since 1975?

14th Feb 2018

Falsely claiming to live alone accounts for around 9% of benefit fraud

latest factchecks

17th Dec 2018
How accurate have Brexit forecasts been since the referendum?
13th Dec 2018
Is income tax being cut for 32 million people?
11th Dec 2018
Wage growth is only the fastest in a decade if you ignore inflation
3rd Dec 2018
The UK's EU membership fee
28th Nov 2018
UK economic growth within the G7
26th Nov 2018
Supermarket pay image—where do the figures come from?
23rd Nov 2018
BBC Question Time: Recap and Factcheck
22nd Nov 2018
Real wages aren’t growing at their fastest rate in a decade
16th Nov 2018
BBC Question Time: Recap and Factcheck
7th Nov 2018
How much does the government subsidise the railways by?
6th Nov 2018
Are we saving £1,205 a year in income tax?
2nd Nov 2018
BBC Question Time: Recap and Factcheck
2nd Nov 2018
Would Labour borrow a trillion pounds?
2nd Nov 2018
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1st Nov 2018
How have wages changed over the past decade?

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Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid?

The UK has posted record export figures, but that’s not very remarkable

Is UK economic growth higher than in Europe?

Pay rises: how much do nurses, the police, teachers and MPs get paid?

The UK has posted record export figures, but that’s not very remarkable

Is UK economic growth higher than in Europe?

How the jobs market for young people has changed since 2010

This claim about the £2,000 cost of a hard Brexit comes from a typo

Do pensioners in the rest of the EU get more cash than the elderly in the UK?

Fair fares? How much are season tickets increasing by?

How the jobs market for young people has changed since 2010

This claim about the £2,000 cost of a hard Brexit comes from a typo

Do pensioners in the rest of the EU get more cash than the elderly in the UK?

Fair fares? How much are season tickets increasing by?

Tax

Tax dodging: how big is the problem?

How much has the government recouped from tax evasion and avoidance?

Are taxpayers paying less income tax than in 2010?

Do the top 1% of earners pay 28% of the tax burden?

Debates

Brexit

Welfare