Europe
£136 million a week is not what the UK sends to the EU
The UK Statistics Authority has not said that the UK sends £136 million a week to the EU. Read
Fact checks
Will Moy
Chief Executive (former)
Will gave the Royal Statistical Society’s Beveridge Lecture Other Truths Are Available in 2018, co-authored The State of Automated Factchecking with Mevan Babakar in 2016, and regularly appears in the media and at events to discuss Full Fact’s work. Will has served on advisory groups for the ESRC, Ofcom, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Treasury, and regularly gives evidence to select committees and other inquiries. He has advised the ONS on a communications review and he was a Marketing Academy Scholar in 2018. He volunteers as a trainer on the NCVO’s Certificate in Campaigning for charities. Before Full Fact, Will worked in the House of Lords for non-party affiliated peer Lord Low of Dalston and for the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. He previously worked briefly in tech.
Five questions about the Treasury model
We've got five questions about the model the Treasury has used for its much-publicised EU analysis announced today. Read
Comment
DWP breaches statistics rules
The UK Statistics Authority revealed an official confession today of misdeeds from the Department for Work and Pensions. Read
Comment
Ask Full Fact: does 80% of the public support the monarchy?
A reader told us that they keep hearing that 80% of the public support the monarchy. We take a look at the figures. Read
Analysis
Health
There's only so much £8 billion will buy you in the NHS
The £8 billion figure is totemic for the future of the NHS, but as the Nuffield Trust has explained, it is not extra money to pay for extra services. Read
Fact checks
DWP uses 'made up' claimants in benefits leaflet
A benefits leaflet published by the Department for Work and Pensions contained 'made up' claimants, which have now been removed. Read
Comment
The hunt for 8.4 million Welsh-speaking telly addicts (yng Nghymraeg!)
Now in Welsh: Minister says twice as many people watch Welsh language TV as live in Wales. Read
Analysis
The hunt for 8.4 million Welsh-speaking telly addicts
Minister says twice as many people watch Welsh language TV as live in Wales. Read
Fact checks
Should we trust the opinion polls any more?
Opinion pollsters had a pretty bad election day. All the pollsters underestimated the Conservative lead over Labour.* Now they are having an inquiry into why. In their defence, the British … Read
Analysis
Health
The government has put about £13 billion more into the NHS in this parliament
David Cameron just told the Today Programme that the government has increased spending on the NHS by £12.7 billion. NHS spending is up by about £13 billion. Spending went up … Read
Analysis