Crime
Crime in London has risen less than the rest of England since 2016
Police recorded crime per person in London is up 18% since 2016. Across England it is up 31%. Read
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Abbas Panjwani
Fact Checker (former)
Abbas joined Full Fact in 2018. Before this, he worked as a social researcher, collecting quantitative and qualitative research to help inform policy development and evaluation for government departments and other public bodies. Most recently he worked as research manager at Ofgem, Great Britain’s energy regulator, and has also worked on projects for BIS, the Home Office and the Competition and Markets Authority.
A Covid-19 diagnostic test won’t pick up other coronaviruses
Antibody tests which detect whether someone had Covid-19 in the past may pick up antibodies to other coronaviruses. Read
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Health
It’s wrong to say that only 3% of Covid-19 cases are caused by restaurants and pubs
This is a misreading of data on the number of outbreaks or clusters identified by Public Health England. Read
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Health
How does a Covid-19 test work?
The common cold will not produce a positive result on a Covid-19 diagnostic test. Read
Analysis
Pay for some nurses has fallen in real terms since 2010
Real-terms pay for staff at the top of band 5 fell from £33,007 in 2010/11 to £30,112 in real-terms between 2010/11 and 2019/20. Read
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Thérèse Coffey did not say starving people were not her concern
The fabricated quote appears to refer to an interview she gave to Sky News where she was asked about Mercy Baguma. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
£1.5bn GDP boost from UK-Japan trade deal is not on top of existing EU-Japan deal benefits
The UK currently trades with Japan under an EU trade agreement. The economic benefits of the new UK-Japan deal are relative to having no agreement, not to trading under the existing agreement. Read
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Health
Testing: Where are we?
With the issue of Covid-19 testing back in the news, we take a look at how the testing programme is currently performing. Read
Analysis
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Health
Advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people varies by local lockdown area
Shielding for the clinically extremely vulnerable has been paused in the UK. That goes for most local lockdown areas, but not Leicester and Blackburn. Read
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