Education
Most, but not all, free schools help meet demand for school places
To set up a free school in England you need to show that there’s parental demand, and either a basic shortage of places or a lack of good school places in the area. Read
Education
To set up a free school in England you need to show that there’s parental demand, and either a basic shortage of places or a lack of good school places in the area. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Whatever the impact it won’t happen straight away. The impact of the revaluation on 1 April will be phased in over the next few years. Read
Panelists on this week's Question Time clashed over the Scottish Government budget. Read
Immigration
There’s a lot of uncertainty, and you can tell different stories about ‘foreign’ workers depending on how you define them. Read
We've seen a poll on the Stoke by-election. As far as we're aware, the campaign group who carried it out still haven’t published the information you’d need to say whether it’s reliable. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
It's not unorthodox to say that trading with the EU under terms set by the WTO would be bad from an economic perspective, but putting an exact cost on it is tricky. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
By several headline measures, it’s fallen gradually across the bulk of UK households in the past ten years. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Rates are going up for some on 1 April, but in the past few years government policies have brought them down overall. Read
Health
Perhaps surprisingly, no-one routinely collects this information. Read
Immigration
It’s likely that around half arrived between 2006 and 2014. Read