Latest Fact Checks

From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.

4 June 2018

One born every minute? How many migrants arrive in the UK and how many children do they have?

About 775,000 children were born in the UK in 2016, 210,000 to non-UK born mothers. Net migration was at around 245,000 in the year to September 2017.

1 June 2018

BBC Question Time: factchecked

Question Time was in Perth this week. On the panel were Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, Labour MP Caroline Flint, the SNP’s Kate Forbes MSP, rapper Darren McGarvey, and Stagecoach founder Brian Souter

1 June 2018

Would an independent Scotland have to keep the pound and cut public spending?

A report commissioned by the Scottish National Party recommends that an independent Scotland should not immediately change its currency from the pound.

1 June 2018

Is the UK’s economy growing slower than any other country in the developed world?

The UK’s economy is growing more slowly than most countries analysed by the OECD in a recent report, but isn’t the slowest. The OECD’s analysis also doesn’t include all developed countries.

1 June 2018

Abortion, human rights, and devolution

What can the Northern Ireland Assembly do?

31 May 2018

HMRC: how many unanswered calls?

Around 13% of calls to HMRC have gone unanswered in the eleven months from April 2017, compared to 8% in the same months the year before.

30 May 2018

Are pay packets growing?

Wages are lower than they were ten years ago, but on some measures have risen since last year.

29 May 2018

Black and ethnic minority students at the University of Oxford

White applicants to Oxford University from the UK are twice as likely to be accepted as black applicants. Overall, 18% of undergraduates from the UK who took up their place at Oxford in 2017 were BME.

25 May 2018

BBC Question Time: factchecked

We factchecked claims on immigration and wages, whether universities are white and middle class, how much is spent on the NHS and social care and where UK applicants to Oxford university come from.

25 May 2018

Higher education: a white, middle-class affair?

4% of UK students who began their first UK university degree in 2016/17 were white, but white students are the least likely ethnic group to enter higher education.

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Latest Fact Checks

One born every minute? How many migrants arrive in the UK and how many children do they have?

BBC Question Time: factchecked

Would an independent Scotland have to keep the pound and cut public spending?

Is the UK’s economy growing slower than any other country in the developed world?

Abortion, human rights, and devolution

HMRC: how many unanswered calls?

Are pay packets growing?

Black and ethnic minority students at the University of Oxford

BBC Question Time: factchecked

Higher education: a white, middle-class affair?

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