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10 March 2017

NHS spending: the lowest financial settlement ever?

The NHS is getting more money every year, but the rate of increase in the 2010s is smaller than in any previous decade, experts warn.

10 March 2017

Taxes, national insurance and the self-employed

We’ve checked claims on who wins and loses from the Spring Budget 2017.

10 March 2017

Cancer care waiting times

An NHS target for the proportion of cancer patients being treated within 62 days of referral is being missed. In January the proportion meeting the target was the lowest since 2009.

9 March 2017

Did the Conservatives break a manifesto promise on national insurance?

The 2015 Conservative manifesto promised not to raise national insurance rates before 2020. The 2017 budget raised the rate of national insurance contributions paid by some self-employed people.

8 March 2017

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

We've checked claims made at Prime Minister's Questions about school places, class sizes, female MPs, and women in the labour market.

8 March 2017

Class sizes under the Conservatives

Average class sizes in English primary schools are up since 2010, although secondary school classes are very slightly smaller.

8 March 2017

Are there enough school places being created?

We took a look at claims from Prime Minister’s Questions about the need for new school places, what’s happening to per pupil spending and the level of need in the areas where free schools have opened.

8 March 2017

Women in the Commons

There are a record number of women in the House of Commons. Labour has the most female MPs. The Conservatives have had the only women Prime Ministers.

8 March 2017

Women in work: the female employment rate, company boards and the gender pay gap

Men and women are still some way off equal in the UK labour market, although we have the highest female employment rate on record, the overall gender pay gap is falling, and more women are on boards.

7 March 2017

The courts and children’s medical treatment

A High Court judge will decide whether Charlie Gard, a baby being kept alive on artificial ventilation, will continue to be kept alive or have his life support switched off. Why is it up to a judge?

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NHS spending: the lowest financial settlement ever?

Taxes, national insurance and the self-employed

Cancer care waiting times

Did the Conservatives break a manifesto promise on national insurance?

Prime Minister's Questions, factchecked

Class sizes under the Conservatives

Are there enough school places being created?

Women in the Commons

Women in work: the female employment rate, company boards and the gender pay gap

The courts and children’s medical treatment

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