Education
Is £14 billion being spent on education?
By 2022/23 the government aims to spend £4.3 billion more on education, once you account for inflation, than in 2019/20. Read
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Claire Milne
Health Editor
Claire joined Full Fact in 2016 and leads on work relating to Health and Social Care. In addition to fact checking work, she takes part in Full Fact’s work with schools, universities and statisticians, speaking about fact checking and the work of Full Fact. She has also appeared on BBC Live Lessons talking to schools about how to spot misinformation.
This post about the decision to increase the state pension age needs some context
Its figures on the pension of the former-permanent secretary to the DWP are correct, his role in the decision making process is less clear cut. Read
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How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed?
There was more than a 7x increase in the number of emergency admissions taking more than four hours from decision to admit to admission from 2010 to 2018. Read
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We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade
There were 6.5 million new GP registrations in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But we can’t be certain about these figures. Read
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Health
Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles
The World Health Organisation says ‘eliminating measles’ means the number of cases in a country is at a level where it can’t circulate easily. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
It’s not government policy to raise the pension age to 75
This was recommended in a report the Centre for Social Justice. Read
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Survation didn’t say the Liberal Democrats are polling ahead of the Conservatives in Esher and Walton
Survation’s poll was a national survey of voting intention which was then used to model an estimate of what local voting could be – this might not be reliable. Read
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These figures on MP expenses are incorrect
A post falsely claimed that Scottish Conservative MPs spent far more on travel and accommodation expenses than SNP MPs. Average expenses per MP were lower for Scottish Conservative MPs than SNP ones. Read
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Europe
MP tweets inaccurate quote from quotes website
The text has been circulating online for some time attributed to Monnet, but he doesn’t seem to have said it. Read
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Health
Money for the NHS: is it new or not?
It all depends on what you mean by new. But the £1 billion was money that had already been promised to hospitals but which they were unable to spend previously. Read
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