Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
This week Question Time was in Birmingham. We factchecked claims on social care funding, drug-related deaths, Labour's manifesto pledges on NHS spending, public health, and sexual harassment at work. Read
Health
The Prime Minister has announced that the NHS in England will receive £20.5 million more in funding in real terms by 2023/24. We’ve looked at where this might come from. Read
This week Question Time was in Caernarfon. We factchecked claims on rail electrification and tidal lagoon projects in Wales, infrastructure funding, road conditions and Chinese railway stations. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
184 households from Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk have accepted an offer of permanent housing. Not all have moved in yet. Read
Europe
This week the Commons voted on 15 amendments that have been passed in the House of Lords over the past few months. We looked at what happened. Read
This week Question Time was in Reading. We factchecked claims on the number of school places, who the UK’s biggest trade partners are, online shopping and rail prices. Read
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 Read
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. Read
Health
In collaboration with the Nuffield Trust we looked at whether or not this winter was the worst ever for the NHS in England. Read
We factchecked claims relating to Grenfell, deaths because of stabbings and shootings and on police budgets and numbers and prosecutions and prison sentences for people carrying blades. Read
