Head of Research (former)
A record number of students awoke to find they'd been accepted onto their first choice university course today, according to the UCAS Chief Executive Mary Curnock Cook on the Today … Read
The Labour Party took to Facebook last night to claim: Following a few high profile cases of absonding prisoners in the last few months, in June Full Fact took a … Read
The best available statistics show trade with the rest of the UK currently accounts for 65% of all Scottish 'exports'. This excludes the significant trade in North Sea oil and … Read
Revenue from the North Sea oil and gas reserves would be an important source of income for an independent Scotland, if it wanted to continue spending at the current level. … Read
Government forecasts of the repayment of student loans have been the subject of scathing criticism today, in a report from a group of MPs. The report, published by the Business … Read
Full Fact often works with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to help journalists, politicians and the public better understand statistics, correcting mistakes when they are made. But even the … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The trend depends on which measure you look at. Read
Last week the Telegraph claimed that social media crimes accounted for 'half' of police calls, alongside similar reports by the BBC, Mail and Independent. The story originally came from the … Read
According to the BBC, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has received more letters from the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) critiquing or suggesting changes to its use of statistics … Read
Yesterday we wrote about a BBC news article which originally claimed social media crimes accounted for 'at least half' of front-line policing. They've since updated the article to clarify the … Read
