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In the home straight leading to the 2012 London Mayoral election, Full Fact checks out claims made by the candidates on the London Living Wage. So how widespread is it really? Read
Following the release of the latest estimates of the school workforce in England yesterday, the Labour party used the occasion to boast about how teaching ranks swelled by 42,000 when they were in power. But were their claims fit for purpose? Read
This week the Taxpayers' Alliance released a list of the UK's highest earning council employees. The Labour Party revealed that nine out of 10 of these individuals work for Conservative councils. Are they right? Read
With barely a week to go until Londoners choose their next Mayor, Full Fact investigates recent claims by the current Mayor in one of the most pointed debates of the campaign. Read
Today the Public Accounts Committee has voiced "substantial concerns" about the Government's claim to be able to save £2.6 billion by reorganising its arm's length bodies - a move dubbed … Read
As part of the housing debate ahead of the London Mayoral Election, both the Labour and Conservative candidates have come to blows over affordable housing building. So where do they get their figures from? Read
Over the weekend the Daily Mail dubbed Brentwood, Essex, the skiving capital of Britain, on the basis of DWP figures that indicate 55 percent of incapacity benefit claimants are fit to work. Are their figures correct? Read
Last week Full Fact called on the London Mayoral candidates to commit to providing Londoners with better information by subscribing to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics should they … Read
NHS waiting times can often cause confusion given the myriad of ways the official data can be viewed. So when we saw a new set of claims from an unofficial, we wanted to know what it could really tell us. Read
A dramatic graph of the number of people in full time work was recently published over at Liberal Conspiracy, under the banner of 'Our jobs problem summed up in one … Read
